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of Quarries in Georgia & Quarry Links,
Photographs and Articles
- Graysville (west of), Catoosa County, Georgia – the Graysville
Mining and Manufacturing Company Quarries (Limestone & Dolomite),
from A Report on the Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia,
Bulletin No. 27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist,
Geological Survey of Georgia, 1912, pp. 248.
| Plate XIX. A. Connasauga limestone.
Portions of quarry of the Graysville Mining and Manufacturing
Company immediately west of Graysville, Catoosa
County, Georgia. |
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| Plate XIX. B. Knox dolomite.
Eastern end of quarries of Graysville Mining and Manufacturing
Company, east of Graysville, Catoosa County,
Georgia. |
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- Graysville (southeast of), Catoosa County, Georgia – the
Hale Property - Quarry (Dolomite), from A Report on the
Limestones and Cement Materials of North Georgia, Bulletin No.
27, by T. Poole Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant State Geologist, Geological
Survey of Georgia, 1912, pp. 256.
| Plate XXI. A. Quarry of Knox
dolomite, kilns and stone house, Hale Property,
about 1 ½ miles southeast of Graysville, Catoosa
County, Georgia. |
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- Greensboro (south of), Green County, Georgia – Porphyritic
Granite, Green County, Georgia (Granite), from A
Preliminary Report on a Part of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia,
Bulletin No. 9-A, by Thomas L. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Geologist,
Geological Survey of Georgia, 1902.
| Plate XVII. Fig. 1. View
of a part of the doming mass, ten miles south of Greensboro,
Georgia (pp. 184) |
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| Plate XVII. Fig. 2. Boulder outcrops
of the porphyritic granite, near the northwestern border
of the mass shown in Fig. 1. (pp. 184) |
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| Pl. XVIII. Fig. 1. Photo-micrograph
of porphyritic granite, from ten miles south of Greensboro, Greene
County, Georgia
(pp. 188) |
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- Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia – Photo-Micrograph
of a Phenocryst of Microperthitic Orthoclase (Granite), from A
Preliminary Report on a Part of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia,
Bulletin No. 9-A, by Thomas L. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Geologist,
Geological Survey of Georgia, 1902, pp. 188.
| Plate XVIII. Fig. 2. Photo-micrograph
of a phenocryst of microperthitic orthoclase, showing
inclusions of quartz, plagioclase, biotite, and very
small prisms of apatite, from the granite of Plate XVIII,
Fig. 1 (in entry above).
Crossed Nicols x 74. |
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- Greenville (near), Meriwether County, Georgia – the Greenville
Granite Company’s Quarry (Granite), from A Preliminary
Report on a Part of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia, Bulletin
No. 9-A, by Thomas L. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Geologist, Geological
Survey of Georgia, 1902, pp. 32.
| Plate II. Fig. 1. Shows the
Graduation from the Residual Clay to the Fresh Granite. |
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| Plate II. Fig. 2. A Gullied
Slope in the Deep Red Plastic Clay Derived from Biotite
Granite. |
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- Greenville, Meriwether County, Georgia – the Greenville
Granite Company’s Quarry Photo-Micrograph of the Medium Blue-Gray
Granite (Granite), from A Preliminary Report on a Part
of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia, Bulletin No. 9-A, by
Thomas L. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Geologist, Geological Survey of
Georgia, 1902, pp. 40.
| Plate III. Fig. 2. Photo-micrograph
of the medium blue-gray granite, from the Greenville
Granite Company’s Quarry, Greenville, Meriwether
County, Georgia.
Crossed Nicols x 74. |
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- Gwinnett-DeKalb-Rockdale Area, Georgia – Map
of the DeKalb-Rockdale-Gwinnett Granite and Granite-Gneiss Area (Granite & Gneiss),
from A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Granites and Gneisses
of Georgia, Bulletin No. 9-A, by Thomas L. Watson,
Ph.D., Assistant Geologist, Geological Survey of Georgia, 1902, pp.
112.
| Map of the DeKalb-Rockdale
granite and granite-gneiss area, Georgia |
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