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Identifier: ironoressaltsand00grim (find matches)
Title: Iron ores, salt and sandstones
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grimsley, George Perry, 1868-
Subjects: Iron ores Salt Sandstone
Publisher: (Morgantown, The Acme publishing company, printers and binders)
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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the quarry shows, Feet. Shales 2 Pink or reddish sandstone ... 13 Buff or yellow calico stone 18 Brown or buff sandstone 16 Blue to black shale 1 Buff sandstone 4 Blue, foliated sandstone 5 Below the floor of the quarry is a blue and buff, butmostly blue foliated sandstone that extends for 30 feet downthe hill, and the upper portion is now quarried. In the upperledges of the quarry fossil stems of plants occur here andthere, and some black carbonaceous spots. At the railroadlevel or 100 feet below the bottom of the quarry is a ledge ofcoarse conglomerate rock reaching 40 feet up the hill. Microsocopical Structure. Mr. S. L. Powell makes the fol-lowing report on a thin section of this sandstone: The rock is essentially a sandstone composed originallyof more or less rounded grains of quartz sand, with a few scat-tered grains of feldspar and some kaolin. The cement isessentially silica. Kaolin and a few kaolinized feldspars oc-cupy a certain portion of the interstitial space, but silica
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WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 513 largely predominates. The quartz grains have grown by ad-dition of silica until they have united into a comapct mass.Sufficient iron stained kaolin is present to give the rock atinge of color. The quartz grains are angular and rough dueto the enlargement by silica, and they average about 0.5 milli-meter in diameter. Brydon Ganister Quarry at Bloomington, Mineral County. Bloomington is a small station on the main line of theBaltimore and Ohio railroad, two miles west of Piedmont.At this place is located the only ganister rock quarry in thestate, though there are many other places where such rockcould be obtained. Ganister rock is a siliceous sandstone which is refractoryand is used for lining Bessemer converters in manufacture ofsteel. The Bloomington rock has proved very satisfactoryfor this purpose and is shipped mostly to Pittsburg. Thisquarry was opened in 1900 and is operated by J. C. Brydonand Company of Grafton, West Virginia. The stone is qu

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  • bookyear:1909
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Grimsley__George_Perry__1868_
  • booksubject:Iron_ores
  • booksubject:Salt
  • booksubject:Sandstone
  • bookpublisher:_Morgantown__The_Acme_publishing_company__printers_and_binders_
  • bookcontributor:West_Virginia_University_Libraries
  • booksponsor:LYRASIS_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
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