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State Line District

Unknown in Lancaster county in Pennsylvania, United States with commodity Chromium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Bibliographic references
  9. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400328
Record type District
Current site name State Line District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -76.16667, 39.75 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lancaster(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Conowingo Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

York(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baltimore(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Susquehanna(hydrologic unit)

Lower Susquehanna(hydrologic accounting unit)

Susquehanna(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster
United States Maryland Cecil
United States Pennsylvania Chester

Comments on the location information

  • The State Line serpentine district extends from the Susquehanna River across North Cecil County, Maryland, and southern Lancaster and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania to Little Elk Creek - a total distance of about 16 miles.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -76.16667, 39.75
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Economic information

Comments on the ore body information

  • Most of the district is a single belt of serpentine about 13 miles long 1/2 to 1-1/2 miles wide.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    See Hard File.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 01-DEC-2009 Illo, Diane R. Contractor

Beyond USGS

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

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