Webster Brick Company Clay Pit, Orange Co., Virginia, USA
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 38° 12' 15'' North , 78° 13' 42'' West |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 38.204166412353516, -78.22833251953125 |
REF:Deposit:: MESA INSP.
Deposit:: PROPERTY IS OPERATED BY WEBSTER BRICK COMPANY, INCORPORATED.
Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS COMPANY.
Deposit:: PHOSPHATE ROCK IS MINED FROM RESIDUUM OF THE ORDOVICIAN BIGBY-
Commodities (Major) - Clay
Deposit Type: Sedimentary
Development Status: Past Producer
Mineral List
Regional Geology
This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Triassic 201.3 - 252.17 Ma | Newark Supergroup; Triassic shale and siltstone Age: Triassic (201.3 - 252.17 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Newark Supergroup Description: Shale, light-greenish gray, light- to dark-gray, carbonaceous, and reddish-brown in cyclic sequences, laminated, silty to sandy, fossiliferous. Siltstone, typically reddish-brown to gray, sandy, micaceous, with minor fine-grained sandstone beds. Comments: Mesozoic Basins; paper map and digital map have differernt labels: paper map does not have TR prefix, but the digital source has TR as part of the label. Lithology: Major:{shale,siltstone} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
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