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Indiana limestone (also known as Bedford limestone) is a form of limestone used as a building material, particularly for monumental public structures. Some 35 of the 50 state capitol buildings in the United States are made of Indiana limestone, [ 1 ] as are the Empire State Building , Biltmore Estate , the Pentagon and National Cathedral in ...
Fossiliferous Harrodsburg Limestone from Indiana. The Harrodsburg Limestone is a geologic formation, a member of the Sanders Group of Indiana Limestone, of Mississippian age. It was named for Harrodsburg in southern Monroe County, Indiana by T. C. Hopkins and C. E. Siebenthal ("The Bedford Oolitic Limestone of Indiana" - 1897). It is made up ...
The North Vernon Limestone is a geologic formation in Indiana. Also called the Sellersburg Limestone, this term however is no longer in use. [ 2 ] Originally called "Corniferous Limestone" it was defined as the unit between the New Albany Shale and the Jeffersonville Lime.
When Indiana became a state in 1816, the capital was located in Corydon. The first capitol building was a humble, two-story limestone building constructed in 1813 to house the legislature of the Indiana Territory. The building was constructed by a company owned by Dennis Pennington, a member of the early territorial legislature.
Indiana Limestone – Limestone quarried in Indiana, United States (Bedford limestone) Jeffersonville Limestone – Bedrock unit in Indiana and Kentucky, United States; Kaibab Limestone – Geologic formation in the southwestern United States; Kasota limestone – Type of rock in southern Minnesota
The fine-grained limestone quarried at the P. M. & B. quarry is commonly referred to as Indiana Limestone, named after the state where it is quarried. Indiana Limestone is more formally termed Salem limestone, which is the name of the geologic formation that consists of this carbonate rock. Salem Limestone is a grain stone that is Mississippian ...
The request was refused because of a town already named Limestone, Indiana. Doctor R. B. Short suggested using "Oolitic", and Oolitic became incorporated on November 4, 1901. The word Oolitic was used as an adjective for oolitic limestone (derived from the Greek word oolite, meaning eggs and stone). Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed of ...
The Pope Mega Group is a geologic unit found in the Illinois Basin of southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky. [1] [2] In Indiana and Kentucky its equitant is the Buffalo Wallow Group. This unit grades from sandstones at its base into mix of limestones and sandstone and then a shale at its top. [3]