Washington Road Sandstone

Past Producer in Mercer 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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102165
MRDS ID DE01431
Record type Site
Current site name Washington Road Sandstone

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -74.6457, 40.33751 (WGS84)
Elevation 21

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

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1970); 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1970 EDITION; LAT-LONG VALUES CALCULATED FROM GIVEN UTMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sandstone Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Stockton
    Rock description Stockton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -74.6457, 40.33751

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N54W
    Dip 13 NE

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 1937

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Princeton University
    First year 1985

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KUMMEL, H.B., 1896, NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S PERMANENT NOTES ON FILE AT NJGS, TRENTON.

  • Deposit

    FIELD CHECKED 1985.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1985 Master, Julian A. (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.