Robert Williams Quarry

Past Producer in Sussex county in New Jersey, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021722
MRDS ID DE01108
Record type Site
Current site name Robert Williams Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.59459, 41.22278 (WGS84)
Elevation 171

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sussex(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hamburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middletown(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Scranton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rondout(hydrologic unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Hudson(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Sussex

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Shale Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Martinsburg Formation
    Rock description Martinsburg Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Ordovician
    Chronological age 480
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.59459, 41.22278

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1960
Year of last production 1980

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED BY BELL, 1982

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SHALE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1987 Kaeding, Margaret E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.