Commodities
PrimaryPhosphorus-Phosphates
Deposit
Deposit typeChemical Sediment, Marine
Model244: Phosphate, warm current type
Geology
Host rockSandstone,Limestone
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10400501
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates31.5, -79
References
Orris, G.J., and Chernoff, C.B., 2004, Table of world phosphate deposits, in Hein, J.R., ed., Life cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From deposition to the post-mining environment: Elsevier, Amsterdam, Handbook of exploration and environmental geochemistry v. 8, CD-ROM.Riggs, S.R., 1989. Phosphate deposits of the North Carolina coastal plain, continental shelf, and adjacent Blake Plateau, USA. In A.J.G. Notholt, R.P. Sheldon and D.F. Davidson (eds), Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 2-- Phosphate rock resources. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 42-52.Popenoe, P., 1990. Paleoceanography and paleogeography of the Miocene of the\nsoutheastern United States. In W.C. Burnett and S.R. Riggs (eds), Phosphate deposits of the world, Vol. 3, Neogene to modern phosphorites. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 352-380.