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  2. Sugar Run Dolomite - Wikipedia

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    The Sugar Run Dolomite is a geologic formation in Illinois. It is a finely-bedded dolomite, preserving fossils dating back to the Silurian period. This formation is named for the Sugar Run stream in Joliet, along which it is well exposed. The dolomite is off-white/grey on freshly cut surfaces but over time oxidizes to a distinctive cream yellow ...

  3. Gravel - Wikipedia

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    Crushed stone may be made from granite, limestone, dolomite, and other rocks. Also known as "crusher run", DGA (dense grade aggregate) QP (quarry process), and shoulder stone. [30] Crushed stone is distinguished from gravel by the U.S. Geological Survey. [25] Fine gravel

  4. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Owens Quarry, a limestone quarry and crusher plant near Marion, Ohio, around which the community of Owens, Ohio grew. Ridgeway Site , in Hardin County, Ohio , a former archaeological site which, during excavation of its gravel, yielded numerous artifacts and buried bodies of the Glacial Kame culture , for which it is the type site.

  5. Limestone, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Limestone is a village in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. It was incorporated in 2006 [3] and had a population of 1,598 at the 2010 census. [4] The village is part of the Kankakee–Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises all of Kankakee County.

  6. Illinois Basin - Wikipedia

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    At its center beneath southern Illinois, the basin contains a thickness of about 15,000 feet of Cambrian through Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks, predominantly marine, and mostly dolomite, limestone, shale, and sandstone. [3]

  7. Geology of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Evidence of this flood can be seen in the high rubble bars that run parallel to the modern river. The torrent also cut through the bedrock of the Joliet Dolomite; this caused the formation of waterfalls in tributaries of the Kankakee as their waters flowed over the hard bedrock and fell down into the canyon cut by the torrent.

  8. Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Limestone Township is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,035 and it contained 1,928 housing units. [ 2 ] Limestone Township is one of the six original townships in the county.

  9. Crusher - Wikipedia

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    A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel, sand or rock dust.. Crushers may be used to reduce the size, or change the form, of waste materials so they can be more easily disposed of or recycled, or to reduce the size of a solid mix of raw materials (as in rock ore), so that pieces of different composition can be differentiated.