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Mackall Building Stone Quarry

Past Producer in Calvert county in Maryland, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067938
MRDS ID W000840
Record type Site
Current site name Mackall Building Stone Quarry
Related records 10145177

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -76.50077, 38.39504 (WGS84)
Elevation 15
Relative position SOUTH OF MACKALL AT EDGE OF ST. LEONARD CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Calvert(county)

Maryland(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Broomes Island(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leonardtown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Washington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Patuxent(hydrologic unit)

Upper Chesapeake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Maryland Calvert

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE AS REFERENCE DOES NOT GIVE A PRECISE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Chesapeake Group , Clays & Sands
    Rock description Chesapeake Group , Clays & Sands

Nearby scientific data

(1) -76.50077, 38.39504
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE DEPOSIT APPEARS TO BE A LOCALLY SILICEOUS LAYER IN THE CHESAPEAKE GROUP.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION YEARS OR FIGURES NOT AVAILABLE

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: THESE ROCKS WERE USED IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY BETTER MATERIAL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MILLER, B.J., 1907, MD. GEOL. SURV., CALVERT CO. REPT., P.128

  • Deposit

    DARTON, N.H., 1896, USGS GEOL FOLIO 23, P. 4

  • Deposit

    PEARRE, N.C., 1961, USGS MAP MR 12.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DARTON REFERENCE MENTIONS BUILDING STONE DEPOSITS BELOW BROOME ISLAND, ONE OF WHICH IS PROBABLY THIS DEPOSIT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1972 Wright, Nancy A. U.S. Geological Survey

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