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  2. Norcross Brothers Granite Quarry - Wikipedia

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    The Norcross Brothers Granite Quarry, more recently the Castellucci Quarry, is a historic granite quarry on Quarry Road in Branford, Connecticut.Opened in 1887 by the Norcross Brothers construction firm, it supplied granite to a number of high-profile construction projects, including the Statue of Liberty and the Marshall Field and Company Building, and was in operation until 1980.

  3. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Burns Quarry, near Carrollton, Georgia, NRHP-listed. Address-restricted archeological site, NRHP-listed in Carroll County; Stone Mountain, Georgia, site of granite quarrying from the 1830s. Its granite was used in the locks of the Panama Canal and in steps to the U.S. Capitol building.

  4. Glacial erratic boulders of King County, Washington - Wikipedia

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    Glacial erratic boulders of King County are large glacial erratic boulders of rock which were moved into King County, Washington by glacial action during previous ice ages.. The Pleistocene ice age glaciation of Puget Sound created many of the geographical features of the region, including Puget Sound itself, [1] and the erratics are one of the remnants of that age. [2]

  5. Aberdeen Quarry - Wikipedia

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    The Aberdeen Quarry is an abandoned granite quarry in Gunnison County, Colorado.It is located along South Beaver Creek, 7 mi (11 km) south-southwest of Gunnison. [2]The Aberdeen Quarry was most active from 1889 to 1892 as it supplied granite for the construction of the Colorado State Capitol Building.

  6. Quincy Quarries Reservation - Wikipedia

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    The "Granite Railway" was designed and built by railway pioneer Gridley Bryant and began operations on October 7, 1826. [3] The granite from these quarries became famous throughout the nation, and stone cutting quickly became Quincy's principal economic activity.

  7. Sierra Nevada Batholith - Wikipedia

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    Fission tracks – destructive remnants of radioactive decay in Uranium-bearing minerals – were shorter than expected in samples taken from several Sierra Nevada plutons. This implied a late-Cenozoic residency at depth, meaning the unroofing and uplift of the Sierra Nevada block happened rapidly near the end of the Cenozoic.

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