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Thornton Quarry. 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.
Thornton Quarry, just south of Chicago, Illinois. One of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles wide, and up to 450 feet deep, site of a Silurian reef. Quarried since 1836. The quarry also acts as an emergency flood control reservoir as part of Chicago Deep Tunnel project.
Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany , Italy.
GNIS feature ID. 2399975 [3] Wikimedia Commons. Thornton, Illinois. Website. www.thornton60476.com. Thornton is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 2,386 at the 2020 census. [4] Thornton is home to the Thornton Quarry, one of the largest quarries in the world.
Website. lemont.il.us. Lemont is a village located in Cook, DuPage, and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is a south-west suburb of Chicago. The population was 17,629 as of the 2020 census. [2] The village is situated on a hillside along the south banks of the Des Plaines River.
Barre granite. Barron County Pipestone Quarry. Basalt Cobblestone Quarries District. Bass Island Brownstone Company Quarry. Beaumont-Tyson Quarry District. Beaver Dam (Maryland) Big Run Quarry Site. Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries. Adolph Brower House.
Originally, the site was distinguished by a group of seven earthworks, small mounds placed in a north-south line.None of the mounds have survived intact to the present; two were excavated by archaeologists from the Illinois State Museum, and the other five have been worn down by repeated plowing, leaving even the highest less than 4 feet (1.2 m) tall.
Carthage Underground. Coordinates: 37.192390°N 94.325395°W. The Carthage Underground is a collection of marble quarries in Carthage, Missouri, most of which is owned by Americold. Americold holds 43,000,000 square feet (4,000,000 m 2) of the quarry, much of which is occupied by warehouses or factories, primarily for food storage.