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  2. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Champion Stone Company, Lueder's Limestone quarry mining from the Lueders Basin outside Abilene, Texas with more than 100 years of Limestone reserves, 14 harvestable layers of limestone and over 12 color options. Tubb Quarry, a shotrock limestone quarry located on the Big Spring Mesa approximately 10 miles south of Big Spring, Texas.

  3. List of lime kilns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Quasius Quarry, near the Sheboygan River in Rhine, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed as the Sheboygan Valley Land and Lime Company. Includes a limestone quarry and kilns for producing quicklime, built in 1911 and abandoned in the 1920s. William Johnston Lime Kiln, Saylesville, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed; Hadfield Company Lime Kilns, Waukesha, Wisconsin, NRHP ...

  4. List of quarries - Wikipedia

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    List of lime kilns, many being near limestone quarries; References This page was last edited on 9 February 2024, at 20:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  5. Anacacho Limestone - Wikipedia

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    Anacacho Limestone stratigraphic column in Texas. The Anacacho Limestone is a unit of limestone of Cretaceous (Campanian) age in Texas. Description

  6. Granite Mountain (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    Granite Mountain is a solid dome, also known as a bornhardt, of pink granite (pink granite is also known as Sunset Red) rising over 860 feet one mile west of Marble Falls, Texas. Since quarry operations began in the late 19th century, the distinctive pink-red colored rock has been used in the construction of the Texas State Capitol in Austin ...

  7. Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument - Wikipedia

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    The flint usually lies just below the surface at ridge level in a layer up to 6 ft thick. The quarry pits were not very large, between 5 and 25 ft wide and 4 to 7 ft deep. [5] Many of these quarries were exploited by the Antelope Creek people of the Panhandle culture between 1200 and 1450 AD. The stone-slabbed, multiroom houses built by the ...

  8. Geology of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex - Wikipedia

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    Cretaceous Formations of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Geologic map and the labeled geologic formations that lie directly beneath the surface in Dallas County Cretaceous formations of Texas Where the DFW Metroplex was located during the last super continent known as Pangea Placement of Tectonic Plates and DFW location around ≈94 million years ago The Cretaceous rocks in the DFW Metroplex ...

  9. Geology of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...