Kenfield Quarry

Past Producer in Windham county in Vermont, United States with commodity Marble, Dimension
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 10106301
MRDS ID W044110
Record type Site
Current site name Kenfield Quarry
Alternate or previous names Site Includes Several Other Small Quarries Atherton and Dix Quarries

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.90564, 42.76031 (WGS84)
Elevation 503
Relative position 2 TO 3 MILES EAST OF READSBORO, VT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Windham(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Readsboro(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Keene(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albany(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Deerfield River(hydrologic unit)

Lower Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Windham

Comments on the location information

  • SEE SKEHAN (1961) FOR LOCATION OF OLD QUARRIES. QUARRY SYMBOLS APPEAR ON HIS GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE AREA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE MARBLE WAS BURNED FOR LIME

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Cavendish Formation
    Rock description Cavendish Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES AND SOME MORE EXTENSIVE TABULAR BODIES
    Strike N10W
    Dip 25-40W

Comments on the geologic information

  • SKEHAN (1961), CALLS THE MARBLE THE SHERMAN MARBLE MEMBER OF THE READSBORO FORMATION.
  • Skehan (1961), Calls the Marble the Sherman Marble Member of the Readsboro Formation.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1825
Year of last production 1875

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner S. Atherton, J. Dix And J. Kentfield

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL PITS WORKED TO A DEPTH OF 5 TO 10 FEET.

Comments on development

  • USED PRIMARILY AS AGRICULTURAL LIME.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 01-JAN-2003 L. G. Woodruff U.S. Geological Survey checked references; location; commodities; ore materials
Reporter 01-SEP-1985 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation

Beyond USGS

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