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Asbury Quarry

Past Producer in Hunterdon county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Limestone, General
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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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082322
MRDS ID W055046
Record type Site
Current site name Asbury Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -75.00849, 40.69278 (WGS84)
Elevation 104

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hunterdon(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bloomsbury(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Allentown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Delaware-Musconetcong(hydrologic unit)

Upper Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Hunterdon

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LIMESTONE WAS MADE INTO LIME BY LIME KILN ON SITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Kittatinny
    Rock description Kittatinny

Nearby scientific data

(1) -75.00849, 40.69278
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 47 E
    Dip 35 SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1908
Year of last production 1908

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Thomas Sorsch Asbury-W. Portal Road, Asbury, Nj

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.202HA

Comments on the workings information

  • ALL THAT IS LEFT OF QUARRY ARE SOME LIMESTONE BLOCKS (1985)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.E., 1945, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMENANT NOTES, ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IN 1945 OBSERVATIONS WERE: A MAJOR SET OF JOINTS STRIKE N 45 E AND DIP 76 TO 90 NW; SECONDARY JOINTING STRIKES N 77 W AND DIPS 45 TO 57 NE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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