Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Gloucester Limestone Outcrops - 2001 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1993-Mar-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Gloucester
Latitude: 45° 27' 12.28" Longitude: -75° 33' 35.34"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 456227.286 Northing: 5033473.005 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G05NE
Point Location Description: Map number 42, 2.0 km NW of Blackburn, lot 12, con 2 (Ottawa).
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Outcrops mapped in the Ottawa area and Gloucester township, 1917, as in # 42. See GSC Mem 99, 1917.
Outcrops associated with quarries are described separately - there were many in 1917.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A large variety of lithologies are described within this area (outcrop numbers 29-66) - mostly limestone but also shale and sandstone - Middle Ordovician. See OGS map P2716 (1984). They are described with reference to their potential for quarrying in 1917.
Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99
Publication Number: GSC Mem 99 Page: 42-45 Date: 1917
Author: Reinecke, L
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 12 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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