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  2. Geologist's hammer - Wikipedia

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    A geologist's hammer, also known as rock hammer, rock pick, geological pick, or geo pick, is a specialized hammer used for splitting and breaking rocks. In field geology , it is employed to expose fresh rock surfaces, as weathered surfaces may obscure accurate analysis of a rock's composition, bedding orientation, mineralogy , history, and ...

  3. Estwing - Wikipedia

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    Estwing was an immigrant from Sweden who settled in Rockford with many other Swedish immigrants. Estwing manufactures striking tools such as hammers, axes, pry bars, bricklayer's tools, roofer's tools, geologist's hammers, and various specialty striking tools. Estwing products are constructed of a single piece of hardened tool steel. [1]

  4. Expanded clay aggregate - Wikipedia

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    Lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) or expanded clay (exclay) is a lightweight aggregate made by heating clay to around 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) in a rotary kiln. The heating process causes gases trapped in the clay to expand, forming thousands of small bubbles and giving the material a porous structure.

  5. Stone picker - Wikipedia

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    A stone picker (or rock picker) is an implement to sieve through the top layer of soil to separate and collect rocks and soil debris from good topsoil. It is usually tractor -pulled. [ 1 ] A stone picker is similar in function to a rock windrower (rock rake); a stone picker generally digs to greater depths to remove stones and rocks.

  6. List of rock types - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of rock types recognized by geologists.There is no agreed number of specific types of rock. Any unique combination of chemical composition, mineralogy, grain size, texture, or other distinguishing characteristics can describe a rock type.

  7. Glossary of climbing terms - Wikipedia

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    Ice hammer A lightweight ice axe with a hammer and pick head on a short handle, and no spike. See also rock hammer. ice piton Ice pitons (left), and ice screw (right) A long, wide, serrated piton that can be used for weak protection on ice. ice screw Modern protection device in ice climbing, with the tubular ice screw as the strongest. [53] ice ...

  8. Tuff - Wikipedia

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    Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock containing 25% to 75% ash is described as tuffaceous (for example, tuffaceous sandstone ). [ 3 ]

  9. Removal of Hell Gate rocks - Wikipedia

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    A patent was issued for the detonating device. After the explosion, the rock debris was dredged and dropped into a deep part of the river. This was not repeated at the later Flood Rock explosion. On October 10, 1885, the Corps carried out the largest explosion in this process, annihilating Flood Rock with 300,000 pounds (140,000 kg) of ...

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