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  2. 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.

  3. Sharon Conglomerate - Wikipedia

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    The Sharon conglomerate has no formal type section, [2] although it is named after the town of Sharon, Pennsylvania. One excellent exposure is located in Cuyahoga Valley National Park at "the Ledges," located southeast of the town of Peninsula, Ohio. Another exposure is at Mary Campbell Cave near Cuyahoga Falls.

  4. Herkimer diamond - Wikipedia

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    Inclusions can be found in these crystals that provide clues to the origins of the Herkimer diamonds. Found within the inclusions are solids, liquids (salt water or petroleum), gases (most often carbon dioxide), two- and three-phase inclusions, and negative (uniaxial) crystals. A black hydrocarbon is the most common solid inclusion.

  5. Quartz - Wikipedia

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    Quartz is, therefore, classified structurally as a framework silicate mineral and compositionally as an oxide mineral. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar. [9] Quartz exists in two forms, the normal α-quartz and the high-temperature β-quartz, both of which are chiral. The transformation ...

  6. Catoctin Formation - Wikipedia

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    The graywackes contain quartz and feldspar in angular to sub-rounded sediments. The bottom of the Catoctin Formation in other places shows a much larger accumulation of sediments such as the ones found near the head of Hawksbill Creek where the rocks are around 100 feet thick. Sedimentary rocks found here is graywackes, phyllites, and argillites.

  7. Chickies Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Chickies Formation is described as a light-gray to white, hard, massive quartzite and quartz schist with thin interbedded dark slate at the top. Included at the base is the Hellam Conglomerate Member. It is a rare metamorphic rock that has fossils; Skolithos is found throughout the formation. [1]

  8. Tuscarora Sandstone - Wikipedia

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    Tuscarora quartzite cliff on the west side of North Fork Mountain in West Virginia. The Tuscarora Formation is commonly exposed on various ridge crests and in many water gaps in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of the Appalachians of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia, particularly along the Wills Mountain Anticline.

  9. Flint - Wikipedia

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    A piece of flint 9–10 cm (3.5–3.9 in) long, weighing 171 grams. Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [1] [2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.