 | | Book (volume) | | CHEROKKE-PICKENS COUNTIES NELSON (Pickens Co.), a 300 sq. mi. region surrounding this town contains many pegmatite dike...Stone Mt.), areaQuartz crystals. LITHONIA: area quarriesCalcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline...Feldspar, Quartz. STONE MOUNTAIN: two area granite quarriesBeryl, Feldspar, Hyalite opal; area granite...the Chattahoochee Ridge itacolumite (flexible sandstone); (b) Glade Cr., gravelsDiamond; regional creeks...Copper MineAlmandite garnet, Azurite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite; at nearby Garnet Hill, areagem Garnets |  | | Book (volume) | | (Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum Co.), a region of rolling, wooded hills. Here, prehistoric Indians...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply |  | | Book (volume) | | (Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum Co.), a region of rolling, wooded hills. Here, prehistoric Indians...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply |  | | Book (volume) | | rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers...granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains, and...precipitation and channel it into the underlying porous sandstone. Laid down in Early Cretaceous times, as the continental...seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave reworked, and spread...has come only from the core of the Black Hills region. Two divisions are recognized: the Northern Section |  | | Book (volume) | | entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries: sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation...this part of the state. In this rough, uncurried region are found the famed Fairburn agates, brilliantly...for gemstone materials. An extensive collecting region of agatized and opalized wood for high gem quality...Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...creeks: especially along Lodgepole Cr., all region S of Sidney to Ogalla, along banks of the South |  | | Book (volume) | | collectors, even though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar than any other state...Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted with the famed...Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone...with Chalcopyrite, brown Calcite and sometimes Malachite). HAMILTON: c area gravels and glacial drift deposits⎯agate...pink Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite |  | | Book (volume) | | collectors, even though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar than any other state...Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted with the famed...Carboniferous system of repeated alterations of sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone...with Chalcopyrite, brown Calcite and sometimes Malachite). HAMILTON: c area gravels and glacial drift deposits⎯agate...pink Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite |  | | Report (volume) | | aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included, because they constitute a very...County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer. Talladega County, several quarries. Clay (brick)...Corundum (emery). Found in various places in gold region, including Coosa County, near Mount Olive and Hanover;... Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls in Elmore County. Galena...Montgomery. Sand (glass). Glass sand from crushed sandstone in Jefferson County, at Gate City, carries 99 |  | | Book | | as well as basalt, granite, limestone (and/ or sandstone), marble, and the clay minerals for baking into...purely ornamental objets d'art out of turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, onyx, and agate,...garnet. Every rock hunter thrills to a find of malachite, chrysocolla, jade, or rhodonite. Today, of course...delving beneath the surface or looking into nearby quarries, road cuts, and bluffs beyond the immediate boundaries...highway engineers as "traprock''); granites; sandstone and limestone (including dolomite) , both of which |  | | Book (edition) | | John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen is...of the plateau portion of this field The basin region of the field lies to the southwest of Cullman county...for manufacture of fire brick. In the yellow sandstone of Red Mountain group, bordering Flagging stone...Springs, and at Pratt's ferry, on Cahaba river. Sandstone flags of Coal Measures, PtankShoal«, on North...gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Fine quarries at Tallahassee falls on Tallapoosa river |  | | Book | | a b r i e f h i s t o r y o f t h e gems o f e region. T h i s C h a p t e r also includes t h e g e...aquamarine. Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple...by Flora Collins. 3 i palachians as well as quarries which are on a semiactive basis such as those...and feldspar mines, gravel or dimension stone quarries, inactive gold mines, quartz out crops, and a...you ing operations should also be examined, and quarries if you need. Chambers of Commerce, Jaycees, police |  | | Book | | . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 11.2.4 Limestone/Sandstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....153 Archaic copper tools from the Lake Superior region, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Copper deposits...Aswan on the west bank of the Nile, carved out of sandstone rock cliffs about 1280 BCE . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . 270 11.10 Weathering of sandstone blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...earths (Sects. 48–69) found in the Mediterranean region and the Near East. His interest is focused on the |  | | Book (volume) | | 407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...from 10 to 24 in. wide enclosed in a ferruginous sandstone⎯red ocher. (Such deposits were well known to prehistoric...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet |  | | Book (volume) | | 407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...from 10 to 24 in. wide enclosed in a ferruginous sandstone⎯red ocher. (Such deposits were well known to prehistoric...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet |  | | Report (volume) | | uranium and vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier... such as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included because they constitute a very considerable...vol. 1, 1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept...County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer; Talladega County, several quarries. Used for road...Corundum (emery). Found in various places in gold region, including Coosa County, near Mount Olive and Hanover; |  | | Book (volume) | | ......................511 Virginia – Leesburg quarries Site Map .......................................407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...from 10 to 24 in. wide enclosed in a ferruginous sandstonered ocher. (Such deposits were well known to prehistoric |  | | Report (issue) | | marble quarries Les Marbres Waterloo quarry Stukely Sud marble quarry Langlois et Freres quarries Ives...deposit East Angus area placer deposits Lime Ridge quarries Weedon (McDonald) mine St-Gerard granite quarry...(Rumpel) soapstone quarry Broughton soapstone quarries Harvey Hill copper mine Quebec Asbestos Corporation...rock quarry Pointe-a-la-Croix shoreline Bordeaux quarries and shoreline Highway 132 road-cuts Section 3:...from road-cuts, shoreline exposures and from old quarries in Gaspesie. The New Brunswick shoreline from |  | | Report (issue) | | ........................ 3 Ancient Egyptian quarries—an illustrated overview James A. Harrell and Per..................................... 7 Gypsum quarries in the northern Faiyum quarry landscape, Egypt:......... 77 Granite quarry survey in the Aswan region, Egypt: shedding new light on ancient quarrying...Whatever else happened to the ancient Egyptian quarries? An essay on their destiny in modern times Per...stone procurement remains unequalled. Yet, stone quarries are often forgotten as key archaeological sites |  | | Report (issue) | | ......................................... 18 Malachite and azurite ....................................Generalized cross-section at the old Westlake sandstone quarry, located about one mile southwest of the...Schuyler mine. Copper ore was found in mineralized sandstone above the margin of the Arlington diabase sill...hydrocuprite, tenorite, chrysocolla, brochantite, malachite, azurite, and possibly conichalcite and pseudomalachite...occurs in small branching veins and seams in sandstone above an intrusive diabase sheet, and is also |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | referred to as "the Pittsburgh of the East." Some quarries of historic note have been omitted because they...marble for the Connecticut State Capitol; the sandstone quarries of Portland, w h i c h supplied the rock... stone Point, Waterford, and resulted i n two quarries. A t one time, the granite was used for the construction...Navy as an underwater sound laboratory, and both quarries now house the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plants...bornite, chalcopyrite, copper, cuprite, datolite, malachite, quartz crystals with movable bubble inclusions |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nickel-Canada ..............................83% Aluminutn-Germany ......................29% Manganese-U. S. S. R...o~e which are close to the Ruhr coal basin in Germany and furnish it with raw ma• terial for steel.making...position was possible. Further, the position of Germany in the · matter of iron ores before this was only...States .................................... 27 % Germany ............................................ 22%.................... 5o/o The next major move by Germany was the assault on the Soviet Union, especially |  | | Book | | became greenstone; granite became granitic gneiss; sandstone was converted to quartzite; limestone to marble;...sediments. Exceptions are the oldest: the Jacobsville Sandstone (early Cambrian), a stream and lake deposit; and...of the Michigan Basin contains "red beds" of sandstone, shale, and minor limestone and gypsum (all under...and iron deposits in the Northern Peninsula, that region has been intensely prospected, especially in the...GROUP Iron and Dickinson Counties Jacobsville Sandstone u 0 N 0 ll:'. w I- 0 ll:'. 0.. ~ 0 .. |  | | Book (edition) | | about the nature of a rock specimen comes from the region where it was collected. In the field, knowing where...of a specimen and the type of rock common in the region, it may be impossible to make a positive identification...Jersey, a basaltic sheet, a sill squeezed between sandstone beds, has made the Palisades. Nearby in Paterson...beyond the bridge, on IGNEOUS ROCKS arc extensive quarries of stone used in concrete foundations tor the...hexagonal tops at Ireland's Giant's Causeway, and in quarries along the banks of the scenic Rhine, they are |  | | Book (edition) | | Later Growth Plates 1 Granite, Gabbro, Gneiss, Sandstone, Marble, Limestone 2 Gold, Silver, Copper, Sulphur...Rhodochrosite, Smithsonite, Aragonite, Aurichalcite, Malachite ihe to Azurite, Barite, Linarite, Brochantite...Peridotite, Nepheline Syenite, Conglomerate, Sandstone, Limestone 43 Shale, Coal, Slate, Phyllite, Quartzite...the nature of his rock specimen comes from the region where it was collected. The different sections...the mineral collector if he is unable to visit a region other than that in which he lives. Areas in which |  | | Report (issue) | | greenstone; . granite became granitic gneiss; sandstone was converted to quartzite; and shale became mica...sediments. Exceptions are the oldest: the Jacobsville Sandstone (Cambrian), a stream and lake deposit; and many...Michigan include: Cambrian: shale, sandstone, hematitic sandstone, conglomerate 5 PI.EISTilCENE NOMENCLATURE...PRECAMBRIAN PRECAMBRIAN 6 sandstone, glauconitic sandstone, dolomitic sandstone, shale, sandy dolomite,...rock anhydrite, potash-salt rocks) Devonian: sandstone, shale, black shale, limestone, reef limestone |
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