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Limestone from
Limestone Pit, Benton County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Type:Limestone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limestone Pit, Benton County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1084498
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1084498:0
GUID (UUID V4):79e4ea02-7c81-41b7-94db-be1d99a658d9
Nearest other occurrences of Limestone
31.9km (19.8 miles) Waynesboro Plant (Waynesboro Quarry Universal Limestone Company), Wayne County, Tennessee, USA
43.9km (27.3 miles) Tishomingo Limestone Quarry, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA
65.0km (40.4 miles) Lawrence Company Limestone Company Quarry (Lawrence County Limestone Company), Lawrence County, Tennessee, USA
93.0km (57.8 miles) Stauffer No. 221-23 M. Smith Occurrence, Maury County, Tennessee, USA
97.8km (60.8 miles) Stauffer No. 223-186 Frierson, Maury County, Tennessee, USA
98.1km (60.9 miles) Stauffer No. 231-23 H. Thurman, Giles County, Tennessee, USA
98.3km (61.1 miles) Stauffer No. 231-18 Ruthen Sands, Giles County, Tennessee, USA
98.4km (61.1 miles) Stauffer No. 231-26 C. Thurman, Giles County, Tennessee, USA
98.5km (61.2 miles) Stauffer No. 223-25 McKissack, Maury County, Tennessee, USA
98.7km (61.3 miles) Stauffer No. 223-33 Waddy Occurrence, Maury County, Tennessee, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Trip at the Sparvetta Quarry on Route 1 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland State Line. This...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton. . . . The Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore...fossils and calcite crystals ; another to a limestone pit, where chert, géodes, fossilized shells, casts...program on the collecting areas of Lake Superior. TENNESSEE The Memphis Archeological and Geological Society...West was a real treat. A trip to the Conklin Limestone Quarry, Lincoln, Rhode Island, for bowenite, calci
Book
took place in 1810 near Murphysboro in Jackson County. The first production of natural gas occurred in...Champaign County. Commercial-quality oil was first discovered in 1906 near Casey in Clark County. Fluorspar...Fluorspar was first discovered at Rosiclare in Hardin County in 1818 but was not mined until 1842. Lead has...has been mined at Galena in Jo Daviess County area since the year 1700. MINES AND PLANTS YOU CAN SEE FROM...—The Midwest Div. of Vulcan Materials Co. has a limestone quarry 15 miles southwest of Chicago’s Loop area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
obtainable from the geological formations of the county, including a Trigonia of a species not yet recorded...Geological Survey of the Southern Division of the County (sheet 53, quarters N.E. and S.E.), written respectively...Northampton district, i n the more northerly parts of the county, and in the neighbourhood of Stamford; to correlate...the county. The double alternation of pervious beds overlying impervious ones - - t h e limestone of the...escarpments of the numerous valleys which intersect the county, the springs of pure water which formed the subject
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1870, 1873) and a sketch of the geology of the county was published in the Association's Proceedings...greater part of our knowledge of the geology of the county is due to that gifted amateur and general accounts...Association's Jubilee Volume (1910) and for the Victoria County History. More recently Mr. L. Richardson has led...1938). For standard accounts of the geology of the county in relation to other areas, the Geological Survey...industry the working of Lincolnshire Limestone and Great Oolite Limestone for use as a flux in the furnaces
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sowerbii. One, P. striolatus, from the transition limestone of the Eifel, has the re-entering angle formed...the Second Kingshaw Limestone, near Carluke, I have distinctly seen, the cartilage pit in the hinge under...Main Limestone; Shield burn, near Benthall, E. Kilbride, in shale bands in ash below Main Limestone; Teiglam...Teiglam burn, Lesmahagow, in shale over the Wee Limestone; Cleekhimin Quarry, near Carluke, Thorn Farm Quarry...below the Main Limestone ; Ponfeigh burn, near. Douglas, in shale above the Main Limestone; Calderwater
Journal (issue)
Shipments by mines for 1958, 1959, 1960 B96 Open Pit Mine Production ef 3 Technological ; Advances...109 —==erererr Ofslo(Seep colitetol Mining Open Pit Mining World-Wide Mining Reports Africa-Asia-Caribbean-Europe...cross members without need for separate dry pump pit. Can be mounted inside flotation concentrate launders...Malaya Nevada New Mexico Oregon South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Washington Wyoming Editor Field Editor...EQUIPMENT International Judges Pick Underground Open Pit Expl-ration Ore Treatment Control and Laboratory
Report (volume)
Uranium Occurrences in the Miller Hill Area Carbon County Wyoming By JAMES D. VINE and GEORGE E. PRICHARD...---------------3. Analyses of 31 mineralized limestone samples from the Miller Hill area____________...URANIUM OCCURREN·CES IN THE MILLER HILL AREA, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING By JAMES D. VINE and GEORGE E. ...Hill area, about 25 miles south of Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyo. The North Park (?) formation in the Miller...includes several fresh-water limestone beds. Beds of brecciated silicified limestone 3 to 10 feet thick contain
Report (volume)
sheeting to topographic surface________ Following 52 4. Pit quarry in granite showing development of lenticular... A, Pit quarry in horizontally bedded sandstone; B, Pit quarry in horizontally bedded limestone _______________...commercially in seven principal varieties granite, limestone, marble, sandstone, slate, greenstone, and basalt;...rocks of granitoid texture and gneisses). 2. Limestone (includes dolomites). 3. Marble (includes calcitic...fine-grained sandstone, siltstone, or slate, but some limestone flagging is produced. Granite and marble, because
Book
Cartridges. SMELTING WORKS AT SELBY, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. Assay Office and General Office, 41 6 Montgomery...shown location of mine, which is Tin Cup, Gunnison county. column shows that the shipping station is ...kind of mine, whether shaft, tunnel, slope or open pit; tons of 2,000 pounds that party does no shipping...Laws 382 and Mining Companies ;ind f)iierators Tennessee. Corporation. Lien and Mining Laws ;)S5 and Mining...Exiiress. .Southern Hirinlni.'li;iin. ShellleUI & Tennessee Kiver Ky. Express. Hirmin;;hani & Atlantie Ky
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by the Eev. DAVID URE from the Carboniferous Limestone of East Kilbride. In 1793 he figured his specimens...Ostracoda he had collected from the Burdiehouse Limestone near Edinburgh. The most important work on this...Upper Limestone Series of the Scottish Carboniferous and others are confined to the Lower Limestone Series...Mississippian of U.S.A. It occurs in the Lower Limestone Series of the Scottish Carboniferous, at the horizon...horizon of the Charlestown Main Limestone. At the same horizon occurs Janischewskya digitata, hitherto
Report (volume)
Study Area, Pima County, Arizona A. Geology of the Rincon Wilderness Study Area, Pima County, Arizona By CHARLES...Areas of the Rincon Wilderness Study Area, Pima County, Arizona By MICHAEL E. LANE, U.S. BUREAU of MINES...resources of the Rincon wilderness study area, Pima County, Arizona. (Studies related to wilderness-wilderness...wilderness designation. The area studied is in Pima County in the southeastern part of Arizona. CONTENTS...Geology of the Rincon wilderness study area, Pima County, Arizona, by 5 Charles H. Thorman and Harald Drewes
Report (issue)
Dekkas Andesite-Bully Hill Rhyolite volcanics and Pit River stock (and Redding dike ) probably correlate...granitoid plutons, the Mule Mountain stock (400 Ma) and Pit River stock (260 Ma), and several smaller intrusives...Early Tithonian) time (~150–2 Ma) accretionary Pit River stock (Z 260 Ma) intrudes Baird Fm (Miss.-Penn...the Baird Fm and McCloud Limestone, locally engulfing the McCloud Limestone and locally intruding the...Permian-Triassic(?) based on a probable coeval relation with the Pit River- Redding dike intrusives and the Nosoni-Dekkas-Bully
Report (issue)
comprisin~ parl of Lancashire (namely so much of the county as is not included in Nos. 3 and 7 Districts),...1899 10 9L Do. Sandstone. Whinstone Do. Limestone Do. 15 · Granite. ' 28Aug. 1899 6 44 Do...Surveyor, Huntly. 53 GJaslaw ... Parish of Aberdour County Council, per Geo. Calvert, Road Surveyor, Maud... L8 Nov.1897 Do. 7 - Sandstone. 20 14 Limestone. 3 Granite and sand. 3 Litnestone. 9 Countess...Port, Long. 18 Whinstone. 18 Nov. 1897 9 Limestone. George Cumming, Longma.nhill, by Banff 2 Granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Vol. W, Plate JM. Horizon of Calderwood Limestone Series. No. x Coal, 4 in. | Blackband Iron, a...As it has not, however, been found in any bore, pit, quarry, or ravine, in the district, we must look...that of the lower coals and iron­ stones of the limestone series. From all my investigations, now continued...rocks obtain their greatest altitude at or near the pit known as Calderwood Colliery, on the estate of the...Glasgow, and the coals and ironstones of the limestone series in the Carluke coalfield. To indicate the
Report (issue)
eastern Alabama, southwestern Georgia, and Florida, limestone, dolomite, and local chert are included in the...1 panhandle Limestone TIN Pa peninsula Suwannee 7 | {| Bumpnose i Limestone Marl | RUPELIAN...River Clay RoE eee cr| : Limestone = Williston g = Gosport Pp Limestone Chi Formation — — —...— AUVERSIAN Limestone T cc ie | EQUIVALENTS* Limestone TTT Inglis a — | EUROPEAN FLORIDA ~~...111-171; Puri, 1953; 1957, p. 24). The Inglis Limestone is a coquina composed of fragments and skeletons
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Old Works at Dawley. Prestwich, p. 480. Wombridge Pit, near the engine. Prestwich, p. 480. Holywell Pits...Pits, Malinslee. Prestwich, p. 482. Dawley Pit. Prestwich, p. 483. Old Park Pits. Prestwich, p. 483. The... 20. SST } 21. Trial Pit, Castle Green. > - Prestwich, p. 475. 22. Lodge Pit, Madeley. Prestwich,... p. 477. Trial Pit, near Lilleshall, Old Hall. PresWfch, p. 479. Hemans Pitfield, near Broseley. Prestwich...Prestwich, p. 481. Yew Tree Pit, Calcut Field, Broseley. Prestwich, p. 481. 23. Meadow Pita, Madeley. Prestwich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Scaldwell and Lamport en route to the Clay Cross Co.'s pit a little east of the Market Harborough road, a mile...two of sandy oolite (Upper Siderite Mudstone-Limestone Group)! and a considerable thickness of glacial...HOLLINGWORTH AND J. H. TAYLOR, At the Upper Lias clay pit of the disused Hamson's brickworks, 1 mile south...associated with pronounced cambering was studied. The pit is .at the southern end of a broad spur on the side...Fossils collected from the Lower Siderite Mudstone-Limestone Group included a Terebratulid that is considered
Report (issue)
SURVEY M. M. LEIGHTON, Chief BULLETIN NO. 46 LIMESTONE RESOURCES OF ILLINOIS BY FRANK KREY IN and...fore the question of the quality and supply of limestone which might be available for concrete aggregate...results of this investigation. Inasmuch as the limestone resources of the State are now being utilized... to include descriptions of the other which limestone is put. work was done by two members of the...Chapter II. Origin and distribution — — of limestone and dolomite in Illinois. General statement Chapter
Report (issue)
Instant Study Area and Adjacent Areas, Valencia County, New Mexico By Philip R. Bigsby, Bureau of Mines...Instant Study Area and adjacent areas, Valencia County, New Mexico. CONTENTS Page SUMMARY.............Instant Study Area and adjacent areas, Valencia County, New Mexico................................. 8...of the El Malpais Instant Study Area, Valencia County, New Mexico. The study area includes the El Malpais...contiguous on either side of State Road 117, in Valencia County, New Mexico, about 5 mi (8 km) south of Grants
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposition of the Calciferous and. Carboniferous limestone series, the district to the west of Edinburgh...bank over which and around the Carboniferous limestone series was at length deposited. An interesting...always near the horizon of the Main or Hurlet limestone. The changes produced on the surrounding strata...the Wishaw coal-field, Glasgow Iron Co.'s No. 2 pit, there is a body of trap of a whitish colour, thirty...terminates partly on the blue shale above the Hosie limestone, which is burnt of a brick colour. In some parts
Report (Issue volume)
PLATE I lRONSTONE Pfl' B. GEDDI GTO IROi STO E PIT TYPICAL WORKINGS I NORTHAMPTON SA D IRO STO E Frontispirce...Lincolnshire Limestone (p. 15); Upper Estuarine Series (p. 20); Great Oolite Limestone (p. • 21); Great...Trial Holing (p. 51); Boring (p. 51); Sampling of pit faces or exposures (p. 53). CHAPTER VIII.-PRESENT...Lodge Pit, Irchester . . . F10. Flo. 5.-Section of Northampton Sand and overburden, No. 2 Pit, Colsterworth...small valley bulge at west end of Twywell Ironstone Pit • 16.-Diagrammatic section of western end of Earl's
Report (issue)
Salford in the Irwell Valley. Started in 1740 the pit was dug to exploit coal 3000ft down but traditional...to the pit head by means of a tunnel, an inverted siphon and an artificial streamway. At the pit head it...the pumps which drained the pit. The water wheel was installed in a wheel pit which was drained by tunnel...landscaped which included filling in the water wheel pit. At this point the story should have ended but by...excavated the wheel pit but not to the level which revealed the true floor of the pit. This was left to
Report (issue)
comprising part of Lancashire (namely, so much of the County as is not incl uded in No. 3 and 7 Districts),...Coal Mines Regulation Act. • :s'ame of Mine. County and No. of District. Name of Mine. Owner's Name...• Owner's Name. Do. Apeda.le, .Alexandra - County and No. of District. 5 Do. Allhallows - Cumberland...Mines-continued. X ame of Mine. Arley Springs • County and r.o. of District. Lancashire Do. Arley Yard...Name. Atherton, No. S Lancashire Do. Armadale County and No. of District. Auchlochan Ay1· . Do. La
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and in one stratum at one pit may be included several of an adjoining pit." This may be the case; but...author was astonished to find that a Limestone (Spirorbis Limestone) was in the southern portion of the...not been able distinctly to detect the band of limestone on the north side of the Severn. He further says...only marine animals could exist. The Spirorbis Limestone is now known to be of marine origin; and, again...manyyards above the Chance Pennystone. At Hemans Pit this Limestone is 105 feet above the Pennystone, whereas
Report (volume)
Middle Fork American River region of eastern Placer County 30 Stratigraphic columns of the Lake Tahoe sequence...North Fork American River region of eastern Placer County 38 Generalized geologic maps of Taylorsville area...includes blocks of upper Upper Ordovician bioclastic limestone that contains conodonts and megafossils of North...the McCloud Limestone in the eastern Klamath terrane. Conodonts from a lens of limestone in the Robinson...composed of quartzite, calc-silicate rock, and limestone. On the basis of lithologic correlations and sparse
 
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