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Mccarthy Sons Quarry

Past Producer in Mercer county in New Jersey, 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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021818
MRDS ID DE01432
Record type Site
Current site name Mccarthy Sons Quarry
Alternate or previous names James K. Brown's Quarry, Princeton University Quarry, Williamson's Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.64681, 40.35501 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mercer(county)

New Jersey(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Princeton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trenton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Raritan(hydrologic unit)

Lower Hudson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Hudson-Long Island(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Jersey Mercer

Comments on the location information

  • NOW A BORO PARK CALLED QUARRY PARK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Lockatong
    Rock description Lockatong
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Triassic
    Chronological age 216
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.64681, 40.35501
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 10 TO 12 NW

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 1960

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Hannah Mccarthy
  • Type Owner
    Owner Boro Of Princeton (In Part)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 100M
    Overall width 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, J.V., 1909, BUILDING STONES OF NEW JERSEY IN KUMMEL, H.B., ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1908

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1985 Simonds, Raymond E. (Bell, Christy A.) New Jersey Bureau of Geology and Topography

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

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