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  1. La carrière des Grands-Caous est incluse dans le périmètre du site classé du massif de l’Estérel Oriental par décret du 3 janvier 1996. Cette contrainte particulière impose à l’exploitation une insertion optimale dans ce site remarquable. Il faut souligner la qualité exceptionnelle du gisement de porphyre...

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  2. This is a limestone quarry, currently run by the Highway Materials, Inc. Formerly known as Corson's quarry, it is claimed to the oldest continuously run quarry in the USA, and perhaps the oldest continuosly run indistrial operation in the USA. Nearby quarries existed from William Penn times. Correspondence exist betwe...

  3. A recumbent fold is exposed in the walls of an abandoned limestone quarry next to the Shenandoah River in Page County, Virginia.

  4. A recumbent fold is exposed in the walls of an abandoned limestone quarry next to the Shenandoah River in Page County, Virginia.

  5. Abandoned Muscovite quarry off Kartesh biological station, RAS, White Sea. The mine was operational at the end of 17 and beginning of 18th Centuries. New attempt of mining happened in 1930 during GULAG times. Not successful in all respects.

  6. Tonoloway Limestone exposed in the northeast wall of the "Old Derrick" Quarry, along Rt. 50, near Romney, WV. The quarry's late Silurian-aged peritidal carbonates were laid down in the Tippecanoe sea. Its strata primarily record a tidal flat environment, with conspicuous mudcracks, laminites, stromatolites, and sal...

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  7. Tonoloway Limestone exposed in the northwest wall of the "Old Derrick" Quarry, along Rt. 50, near Romney, WV. The quarry's late Silurian-aged peritidal carbonates were laid down in the Tippecanoe sea. Its strata primarily record a tidal flat environment, with conspicuous mudcracks, laminites, stromatolites, and sal...

  8. Anticline-Syncline pair exposed in the Bear Valley Coal Mine, near Shamokin, Pennsylvania - shot from atop the Whaleback.

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  9. Quarry in diabase, near St. Peters Village, operated by the Pennsylvania Granite Company.

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  10. Long a popular destination for rock climbing, the Quincy quarries were also the source of the granite for the Bunker Hill monument. For more information, try this link ->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Quarries_Reservation

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