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  2. Hulburt Creek Garden Beds - Wikipedia

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    Based on radiocarbon dating, the garden beds date to roughly 1000 A.D., making them the oldest surviving garden beds in the Upper Midwest; this places the site within the Late Woodland period. The garden beds were most likely used to grow native plants such as corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins. Landowner Bill Pierce donated the site to the Sauk ...

  3. Massachusetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry - Wikipedia

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    The quarry was located while searching for prehistoric sites near a golf course construction project to the north of the Blue Hills Reservation. [2] The stone found at the quarry is not basaltic in origin, but a heavily metamorphized sedimentary slate known as hornfels, that has a significant amount of silica. This stone had the property of ...

  4. Kirkby Slate Quarries - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The quarries have produced a characteristic blue-grey slate for over 450 years, with large-scale production starting in the early 19th century, when the Cavendish family organised small-scale quarrying activities by local farmers into a larger group of quarries, which then attracted others into the area to live and work in the quarries ...

  5. Phyllite - Wikipedia

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    Phyllite Photomicrograph of thin section of phyllite (in cross polarised light) Fractured Duke stone showing phyllitic texture Phyllite. Phyllite (/ ˈ f ɪ l aɪ t / FIL-yte) is a type of foliated metamorphic rock formed from slate that is further metamorphosed so that very fine grained white mica achieves a preferred orientation. [1]

  6. Buckingham Slate - Wikipedia

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    Buckingham Slate is quarried in Buckingham County, Virginia, in the town of Arvonia. This natural stone has a distinct gray/blue/black color and glistens due to its mica content. This natural stone has a distinct gray/blue/black color and glistens due to its mica content.

  7. Woodchips - Wikipedia

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    Woody chips left for drying before transport to industrial off-takers in Namibia. Woodchips have been traditionally used as solid fuel for space heating or in energy plants to generate electric power from renewable energy. The main source of forest chips in Europe and in most of the countries [which?] have been logging residues

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