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Unidentified Siltstone Quarry

Past Producer in Puerto Rico, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056879
MRDS ID TC01054
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Siltstone Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -66.00473, 18.36509 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 50(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trujillo Alto Municipio(county)

Puerto Rico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aguas Buenas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Puerto Rico C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Eastern(hydrologic unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puerto Rico(hydrologic subregion)

Caribbean(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Puerto Rico

Comments on the location information

  • 1-2 KM NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF TRUJILLO ALTO.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Rock unit name Guaynabo Formation
    Rock description Guaynabo Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -66.00473, 18.36509
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE QUARRY PLOTS IN THE LEPROCOMIO SILTSTONE MEMBER OF THE GUAYNABO FORMATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 250 M THICK, THIN-BEDDED TO LAMINATED, DARK-GRAY CALCAREOUS AND TUFFACEOUS SILTSTONE AND FINE GRAINED SANDSTONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1991 Carbonaro, Marguerite M. (Page, Norman J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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