Inwood Marble



(Type Location)

Cambro-Ordovician
(Dolomitic Marble)

Isham Street at Seaman Avenue
Inwood Hill
New York County
NEW YORK
Photograph by Mr. David Tannenbaum, Special Education Department, John Dewey High School, Brooklyn, New York
dolomitic boudin
necking
region
foliation plane
(perpendicular to direction of flattening
and parallel to direction of flow)
Photomicrograph by Charles Merguerian, Hofstra University
Key:  ca: Calcite  mu: Muscovite  q: Quartz  ph: Phlogopite
Photograph by Cheryl J. Moss, Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers


[Core]


Manhattan
NEW YORK
Photograph by Michael P. Klimetz


[Dolomitic]

Snowflake Quarry
Thornwood


Westchester County
NEW YORK
Photograph by Michael P. Klimetz


[Dolomitic Tuckahoe Marble]

Marbledale Quarry
Tuckahoe


Westchester County
NEW YORK
Photograph by Michael P. Klimetz


[Dolomitic Tuckahoe Marble]

Marbledale Quarry
Tuckahoe


Westchester County
NEW YORK
Photograph by Michael P. Klimetz


[Dolomitic Tuckahoe Marble]

Marbledale Quarry
Tuckahoe


Westchester County
NEW YORK
Link to Professor Wayne Powell's Tuckahoe Marble webpage [Brooklyn College, City University of New York]
Photographs by Michael P. Klimetz


[Dolomitic Tuckahoe Marble]

Marble Park of Tuckahoe
Fisher Avenue and Marbledale Road
Tuckahoe

Westchester County
NEW YORK
Marble Park of Tuckahoe
Photographs by Michael P. Klimetz


East Wall of Quarry

Marble Park of Tuckahoe
Fisher Avenue and Marbledale Road
Tuckahoe

Westchester County
NEW YORK
Photograph by Michael A. Klimetz

[February 2018]


East Wall of Quarry

[Behind Town Center Mall]

Broadway at Garrigan Avenue
Thornwood

Westchester County
NEW YORK
Snowflake Quarry
East Wall of Quarry
Photographs by Michael P. Klimetz


[Weathered Dolomitic Marble with White Tremolite Porphyroblasts and Brown Dravite]

Cooper Street
Between West 206th and West 207th Streets
Inwood Heights

Manhattan County
NEW YORK
Photographs by Michael P. Klimetz


[Weathered Dolomitic Marble with White Tremolite Porphyroblasts and Brown Dravite]

Cooper Street
Between West 206th and West 207th Streets
Inwood Heights

Manhattan County
NEW YORK
Photographs by Michael P. Klimetz


[Weathered Dolomitic Marble with White Tremolite Porphyroblasts and Brown Dravite]

Cooper Street
Between West 206th and West 207th Streets
Inwood Heights

Manhattan County
NEW YORK
Photographs by Michael P. Klimetz


[Weathered Dolomitic Marble with White Tremolite Porphyroblasts and Brown Dravite]

Cooper Street
Between West 206th and West 207th Streets
Inwood Heights

Manhattan County
NEW YORK
Photographs by Michael P. Klimetz


[Brown Dravite Crystal in Weathered Dolomitic Marble with White Tremolite Porphyroblasts]

Cooper Street
Between West 206th and West 207th Streets
Inwood Heights

Manhattan County
NEW YORK