West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry (West Roxbury Trap-Rock Co. Quarry; Grove St. Quarry), West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
Latitude: 42°16'2"N
Longitude: 71°9'30"W
Crushed stone quarry, primarily in coarse-grained Dedham granite. The quarry was opened in 1889 by Thomas F. Welch (b. 1855 West Roxbury, MA). The business was incorporated as West Roxbury Trap-Rock Company in 1907.
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References
Gleba (1978), Massachusetts Mineral & Fossil Localities.
Thompson, M. D., et al. (2010): High precision U-Pb zircon dates for Ediacaran granitoid rocks in SE New England; in Tollo, Richard P. et al., ed., From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the Appalachian Region (GSA Memoir 206).
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