A limestone/marble quarry. Hardly separated from the Commercial Quarry by a thin ridge of contact rock.
References
Rogers, Austin Flint (1918b), An American occurrence of periclase and its bearing on the origin and history of calcite brucite rocks: American Journal of Science, 4th. Series: 46: 581-586.
Daly, John W. (1935), Paragenesis of mineral assemblages at Crestmore, California American Mineralogist: 20: 638-659.
Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941) Section Across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist: 26: 352-381.
Woodford, A.O. (1943), Crestmore minerals: California Division Mines Report 39: 333-365.
Burnham, C. W. (1959), Contact metamorphism of magnesian limestones at Crestmore, California Geological Society of America Bulletin: 70: 879-920.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 137, 211, 216-217, 218, 251, 274, 288, 341, 354.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California: 217, 287, 324, 428, 460.
Forrester, Curt (2004) Large Clintonite Crystals from the Crestmore Quarry Riverside, California. Mineralogical Record: July/August, 2004.
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