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Basalt fiber is made from a single material, crushed basalt, from a carefully chosen quarry source. [1] Basalt of high acidity (over 46% silica content [2]) and low iron content is considered desirable for fiber production. [3] Unlike with other composites, such as glass fiber, essentially no materials are added during its production.
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .
The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending approximately 400 miles (640 km) northwest-southeast, and 200 miles (320 km) southwest-northeast.
Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago. The quarry is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide, and 450 feet (140 m) deep at its deepest point. Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry since 1928.
The original incorporators were Peter Frantz (1868–1949), Clarence Lahman (1862–1947), John Lahman, and William Lahman. On January 12, 1911, the Company re-organized and changed its name to The Frantz Manufacturing Company. [1] Frantz was established in Sterling, Illinois which was once known as "The Hardware Capital of the World".
Ordovician rocks in Illinois are divided into three series, each separated by an unconformity; from oldest to youngest, these are the Canadian, Champlainian, and Cincinnatian series. Ordovician features in Illinois include the now-buried Glasford Structure in Peoria County , a crater caused by a meteorite impact roughly 455 million years ago.
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The Shawnee Hills are a region within the larger Interior Low Plateaus physiographic province located in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and western Kentucky. [1] In Illinois it rests mainly in an east–west arc roughly following the outline of the southern end of the Illinois Basin .