DiopsideNew City Quarry, Crestmore Quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA
Latitude: 33°57'1"N
Longitude: 117°21'22"W
A former municipal limestone quarry located in sec. 36, T2S, R5W, SBM, off Victoria Avenue, 2 miles E of Riverside city center.
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.
Richmond, Gerald Martin (1939), Serendibite and associated minerals from the New City Quarry, Riverside, California: American Mineralogist: 24: 725-726.
Bradley, W.W. (1940), Thirty-sixth report of the State Mineralogist: California Division Mines Report 36: 456.
Bailey, Edgar H. (1941b), Skeletonized apophyllite from Crestmore and Riverside, California: American Mineralogist: 26: 565-567.
Larsen, Esper Signius (1948), Batholith and associated rocks of Corona, Elsinore, and San Luis Rey quadrangles, southern California: Geological Society of America Memoir 29: 182 pp.: 34.
Murdoch, Joseph and Webb, R.W. (1956) Minerals of California California Division of Mines Bulletin 173, 452 pp.; supplement 1955-1957: 13.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 60, 68, 79, 80, 115, 141, 152, 188, 225, 280, 285, 286, 308, 328, 334, 345, 387.
California Division of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 77-14 (1977): 764-766.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 145, 146, 174, 367, 387, 398, 406, 440, 444, 458, 483, 486, 502, 508.
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