AN OCCURRENCE OF CRISTOBALITE IN ADIRONDACK GARNET P. J. Walter, M. A. Charles, J. H. Gordon Jr., and R. S. Darling. Dept. of Geology, SUNY Cortland, P.O. Box 2000, Cortland, NY 13045.
The low-pressure silica polymorph cristobalite has been found inside garnet porphyroblasts from the Barton mine on the north slope of Gore Mountain, New York (Darling, Chou, and Bodnar 1997). We have located two additional occurrences of cristobalite in Adirondack garnet. The first occurs at the ...