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Gravelly Creek Quarry

Past Producer in Buncombe county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Marble, Dimension
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102354
MRDS ID K003553
Record type Site
Current site name Gravelly Creek Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.44125, 35.48093 (WGS84)
Relative position 1500 FT SOUTHWEST OF OAK GROVE CHURCH, ON WEST SIDE OF GRAVELLY CREEK, SOUTHEAST OF CANE CREEK ROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Buncombe(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fruitland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hendersonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper French Broad(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Buncombe

Comments on the location information

  • QUARRY HAS BEEN BACKFILLED, AND AREA IS HEAVILY OVERGROWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Cataclastic Schist, Phyllonite & Mylonite
    Rock description Age Cataclastic Schist, Phyllonite & Mylonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Tectonite > Mylonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.44125, 35.48093
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast - Trending Brevard Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARRY IS WITHIN BREVARD FAULT ZONE, APPROXIMATELY EQUIDISTANT FROM ITS EASTERN AND WESTERN BOUNDARIES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, R.E., 1973, MINERAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF THE FRUITLAND QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA: N.C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RESOURCES MRS 202 - NW

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, R.E., AND DUNN, D.E., 1973, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE FRUITLAND QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA: N.C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RESOURCES GM 202 - NW, SCALE 1:24000

  • Deposit

    INGLE, R.S., 1947, LIMESTONE IN THE BREVARD SCHIST: N.C. DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL. UNPUB. REPORT

  • Deposit

    CONRAD, S.G., 1960, CRYSTALLINE LIMESTONES OF THE PIEDMONT AND MOUNTAIN REGIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA: N.C. DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL. BULL. 74

  • Deposit

    1947 COMPILE N.C. DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL; UNPUB. REPT

  • Deposit

    1960 COMPILE N.C. DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL; REPORT

  • Deposit

    1973 GEOLMAP N.C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RESOURCES

  • Production

    LEMMON, 1973, N.C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RESOURCES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Floyd, Robert J. U.S. Geological Survey

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