An old quarry in diabase, dating to before 1734. Locality is now built over. This area was formerly a part of Charlestown before Somerville was established.
16 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.
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Wadsworth, M. E. (1877): The Intrusive Rocks in the Vicinity of Boston (Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 19:233-237).
Dana 6:532
Palache, C. and Fraprie, F. R. (1902).
Babingtonite from Somerville, Mass. (Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 38:383-391).
Palache, Charles (1946): Some Lost Mineral Localities of New England; 1. Granite Street Quarry. (Rocks and Minerals 21:845)
Tschernich, R. (1992): Zeolites of the World, 115
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