East Marengo County Lightweight Aggregate District

Prospect in Marengo county in Alabama, United States with commodity Bloating Material
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001825
MRDS ID W030689
Record type District
Current site name East Marengo County Lightweight Aggregate District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -87.65002, 32.19598 (WGS84)
Relative position SEC. 19-20, T15N, R5E

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Marengo(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Magnolia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Selma(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montgomery(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Tombigbee-Chickasaw(hydrologic unit)

Mobile Bay-Tombigbee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Mobile-Tombigbee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Marengo

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bloating Material Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) Midway Group; Naheola Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Discovery year 1966
Discoverer O.M. Clarke Jr

Mining district

District name EAST MARENGO COUNTY LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATE DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLARKE, O.M. JR. AND TYRRELL, M.E., 1976, PORTERS CREEK LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATE: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIR. 100, 35 P

  • Deposit

    CLARKE, O.M. JR., 1970, CLAYS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIR. 20-E, 97 P.

  • Deposit

    CLARKE, O.M. JR. AND OTHERS, 1973, MINERAL RESOURCES OF MARENGO COUNTY, ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIR 91, 38 P.

  • Deposit

    CLARKE, O.M. JR., 1973, LIGHTWEIGHT AGGREGATE RESOURCES OF MARENGO COUNTY: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN FILE, 31 P.

Beyond USGS

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