Quincy, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA

Granite Rail Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA

Photo: 2004 Peter Cristofono

Latitude: 42°15'N
Longitude: 71°0'W

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Quincy was incorporated as a town in 1792, and became a city in 1888. Granite quarrying in Quincy began in 1825.

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References

Crosby, William O. (1900): Geology of the Boston Basin, Volume 1, Part 3: The Blue Hills Complex.

Pirsson, L. V. (1910): Note on the Occurrence of Astrophyllite in the Granite at Quincy, Mass. (American Journal of Science, 4th series, vol. 29, no. 171, pp.215-216.)

Dale, N. (1908): The Commercial Granites of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Palache, C. and Warren, C. H. (1911): The Chemical Composition and Crystallization of Parisite and a New Occurrence of It in the Granite-Pegmatites at Quincy, Mass., U. S. A.; with Notes on Microcline, Riebeckite, Aegirite, Ilmenite, Octahedrite, Fluorite, and Wulfenite from the Same Locality. (Amer. Jour. Sci. 4th Series, 31:533-557)

Warren, C. H. and Palache, Charles (1911): The pegmatites of the riebeckite aegirite granite of Quincy Mass USA: their structure minerals and origin. (Am Acad Arts and Sci Proc 47:125.)

Warren, C. H. (1913): Petrology of the Alkali-Granites and Porphyries of Quincy and the Blue Hills, Mass., U.S.A. (Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 49)

Brayley, Arthur W. (1913): History of the Granite Industry of New England, Volume 1.

Emerson. B. K. (1917), Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. (USGS Bulletin 597)

Clifford, J. Nelson (1939). Granite Industry of Quincy, Massachusetts (Economic Geography, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr., 1939), pp. 146-152)

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 284.

Bartsch, Rudolf C. B. (1944): New England Notes (Rocks & Minerals 19:244)

Smith, W. L.; Stone, J.; Ross, D. R.; Levine, H. (1960), Doverite, a Possible New Yttrium Fluocarbonate from Dover, Morris County, New Jersey. (American Mineralogist 45:92-98.)

Sayer, Susan (1974): An Integrated Study of the Blue Hills Porphyry and Related Units, Quincy and Milton, Massachusetts (MIT master's thesis)

Lyons, Paul (1976): The Chemistry of Riebeckites of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (Mineralogical Magazine 40:313)

Gaines, R. V., et.al. (1997): Dana’s New Mineralogy, 8th Edition.

Laukkanen, John (2006): Quincy Quarries: Gold and Gloom (Bloomington IN: Trafford Pub.)

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