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  2. Buxton lime industry - Wikipedia

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    Map of Buxton's limestone quarries and freight railways The Buxton lime industry has been important for the development of the town of Buxton in Derbyshire, England, and it has shaped the landscape around the town. Geology The White Peak area of the Peak District is named after the limestone plateau landscape of the ' Derbyshire Dome '. This limestone outcrop is surrounded by a horseshoe ...

  3. Indiana Limestone - Wikipedia

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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 ...

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

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    Woral C. Smith Lime Kiln and Limestone House, Fairbury, Nebraska, NRHP-listed; Fort Atkinson (Nebraska) Moses Craig Lime Kilns, Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey, NRHP-listed; Stillwater Township, New Jersey; Washington Valley Historic District, in Morris Township and Mendham Township, both in Morris County, New Jersey. Includes one or more lime kilns.

  5. Harpur Hill Quarry - Wikipedia

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    The site near Harpur Hill, south of Buxton, was worked as a limestone quarry. [1] Small-scale lime burning had taken place near Harpur Hill since at least the 1600s, initially around Grin Low near Poole's Cavern to the north, using lime kilns to produce quicklime by calcinating the limestone (mainly Bee Low Limestones) quarried nearby (that is, heating calcium carbonate to produce calcium oxide).

  6. Salem Limestone - Wikipedia

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    The Salem Formation is a geologic formation in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri. It preserves fossils dating back to the Mississippian subperiod . This formation is quarried and used as a building material, known as " Indiana limestone ", also called Bedford limestone.

  7. Woolery Stone Company - Wikipedia

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    Woolery Stone Company is a historic limestone quarry and manufacturing complex located at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.The property includes a variety of buildings, structures, and objects associated with the production of dimensional limestone.

  8. Paoli Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Paoli Formation, Paoli Limestone, or Paoli Chert is a geologic formation in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. This formation contains members that are known hydrocarbon reservoirs . [ 1 ]

  9. Indiana state stone (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...