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unusual facts about Quarry



Aberlemno

A genus of fossil plants first found in a nearby quarry is named Aberlemnia in honour of the location.

Aberllefenni

The quarry reservoir, Llyn Cob, was once known as Llyn Owain Lawgoch, after the last male survivor of the princely house of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.

Affective labor

One popular, albeit slightly less than perfect example, of this might be that, whereas Fred Flintstone, as an average American, drove a crane in a quarry, Homer Simpson sits at a desk and provides safety.

Aurorazhdarcho

In 1999 amateur paleontologist Peter Katschmekat uncovered a fossil of a pterosaur in the Blumenberg Quarry, three kilometres northwest of Eichstätt, in layers of the Solnhofen limestone.

Bealey River

This quarry was host to a number of locomotive parts including the frame of V 132, which had been retrofitted with Walschaerts valve gear in 1898 as an experiment by NZR.

Bobby Quarry

Bobby Quarry was born in Lynwood, California on November 11, 1962, and is the last surviving brother of the four Quarry brothers, three of whom were noted boxers.

Brightwater Commons

The Randburg Waterfront was originally built in 1994, and consisted of a large oval of shops and restaurants surrounding a lake in a natural depression and former sand quarry in President Ridge in Randburg, fed by the Pampoen Spruit, a tributary of the Jukskei River.

Brora

Stone from the quarry was used in the construction of London Bridge, Liverpool Cathedral and Dunrobin Castle.

Buckholt, Monmouthshire

Stone from the quarry was used to build Haberdashers' Schools in Monmouth and for restoring the town wall at Hereford.

Cloud Quarry

During World War II a factory was built in the disused quarry to make tyres for Avro Lancaster Bomber.

Dent, Cumbria

Whilst fishing on the Dee at Dentdale in the 1840s, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong saw a waterwheel in action, supplying power to a marble quarry.

Eduard Opitsch

Eduard Opitsch (1 February 1900 — 20 February 1991) was a German quarry owner whose name is associated to a specimen of the prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx, the Maxberg specimen.

The so-called Maxberg specimen of Archeopteryx lithographica has been discovered in 1956 in his quarry in Langenaltheim.

Efraasia

Material now known under Efraasia first came to light after Albert Burrer, Hofsteinmetzmeister ("Court master stonemason") at Maulbronn, in 1902 began to exploit the Weiße Steinbruch, a quarry near Pfaffenhofen in Württemberg.

Europasaurus

This specimen and all others referred to the taxon were collected from "bed 93" at the Langenberg quarry, Oker near Goslar, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen).

Góra Świętej Anny

Amphitheatre (Thingspiele) built in the abandoned limestone quarry in 1934-1938

Granite, Virginia

The McIntosh Quarry furnished the stone used in the approaches and steps in the renovation and expansion of the Virginia State Capitol which had recently been completed (1904–06).

Harris Super Quarry

The Harris Super Quarry was a proposed super quarry at Lingerbay, Harris, Scotland.

Historical Museum of the Palatinate

Over 1,000 pieces of silver, bronze, brass and iron (weapons, tools, coins, tableware, kitchenware etc., weighing more than 700 kg, sunk in the waters of the Rhine 1,700 years ago, the largest Roman-era trove of metals found in Europe, dug up in a gravel quarry near Neupotz, 30 km south of Speyer.

HM Prison Maidstone

Constructed using Kentish Ragstone from a local quarry, the original design of the prison was intended to house 552 prisoners, including 62 female inmates.

Hook Norton Ironstone Partnership

The Hook Norton Ironstone Partnership was the first company to quarry ironstone at Hook Norton on a large scale.

Indiana Limestone

In the 1979 film Breaking Away, the main character's father is a former Indiana limestone quarry worker who reminisces with his son about his pride in playing a role in the campus architecture; significant scenes involve the son swimming and lounging with friends at one of the local abandoned limestone quarries.

John Aloysius Green

In addition to the Champion quarries, Mr. Green opened a quarry on Buffalo Creek, worked the old state quarry on the Wapsipinicon River for a time, a quarry at Wasioja, Minnesota, and one at Shuster, Missouri.

La Moneda Palace

Works on the building started in 1784, with building materials arriving the following year from around Chile and the world: limestone from the Polpaico country estate; sand from the Maipo River; red stones from a quarry at the Cerro San Cristóbal in Santiago; white stone from the neighbouring Cerro Blanco; oak and cypress wood from Valdivia; Spanish metal works from Vizcaya.

Lava Butte

In June 1926, a quarry was developed in the fault scarp east of Lava Butte as a source for paving material for the first The Dalles-California Highway (later U.S. Route 97).

Leiper Canal

The horse-drawn tramway, the Leiper Railroad, carried stone from the quarry for 18 years before the opening of the canal.

Lenox Dale, Massachusetts

There is also a marble quarry on the border with the town of Washington.

Magheramorne

Nearby is an old limestone quarry currently owned by Lafarge (formerly known as Blue Circle).

Malerisaurus

It was collected in the Otis Chalk Quarry 2 (TMM 31099 locality) from the Colorado City Formation, Chinle Group, dating to the early Carnian stage of the Late Triassic, about 228-227.5 million years ago.

Middleton Quarry

The quarry supports a moth fauna which includes at least two species, the northern rustic, Standfussiana lucernea, and the anomalous wainscot, Stilbia anomala, that are rare in north-east England.

Mount Gravatt East, Queensland

On land owned by Boral along Pine Mountain Road, an old quarry has filled with water.

Otozoum

Excellent Otozoum specimens from the Portland Quarry may be seen in the Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

Pemulwuy, New South Wales

Pemulwuy, formerly part of Prospect, is a relatively new suburb, with development beginning in 2004 on the site of a former Boral quarry and CSIRO sites.

Permanente Creek

Bess Kaiser and her spouse, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, had a lodge on the creek's headwaters above the large Permanente Quarry and Cement Plant, and, in 1945, Bess felt that the name of their attractive and dependable stream would be a good name for their medical program at the shipyards.

Polacanthus

It is named after the village of Rudgwick in West Sussex and was discovered at a Rudgwick Brickworks Company quarry, at the quarry floor in gray-green marl beds of the Wessex Formation.

Reading to Taunton line

The next junction on the right is at Witham, where the old East Somerset Railway carries stone trains from Merehead Quarry and continues to Cranmore.

Sciurumimus

It is known from a single juvenile specimen representing the type species, Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, which was found in a limestone quarry close to Painten in Lower Bavaria.

Slaugenhopia

Slaugenhopia was found from the San Angelo Formation within the Kahn Quarry of Driver Ranch in Knox County, Texas.

South Witham

On the road to Wymondham is a limestone quarry owned by Breedon Aggregates, containing around 3.2 million tonnes of limestone.

Spertiniite

It was first described in 1981 for an occurrence in the Jeffrey quarry of the Johns-Manville mine, Asbestos, Estrie, Québec.

St Mary's Church, Roecliffe

The stone used in its construction came from an old Roman quarry in the grounds of Aldborough Manor, and from a quarry at Cotgrove, while the stone for the internal arch was from Burton Leonard.

Stenopelix

In 1855, in a sandstone quarry near Bückeburg on the Harrl heights, a fossil was found of a small dinosaur.

Stone City, Iowa

Thanks to the vision of George Nissen (the developer of the modern trampoline) the original three-story Stone Barn, the Quarry Office, Water Tower and Ice House were preserved although they have been converted into private homes.

The Strange World of Gurney Slade

The name Gurney Slade is taken from the name of a district (and limestone quarry) in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, not far from the city of Wells.

Treffgarne Bridge Quarry

This site is designated due to its geological qualities: Cambrian sedimentary rocks exposed in a disused quarry and road cutting.

Two-foot-gauge railways in South Africa

SAR’s Bellville quarry in the Tygerberg hill, employing Zwillinge locomotives.

Ulrich Rückriem

In the 1960s and 1070s, Rückriem worked in the quarry of Dolomite at Anröchte, culminating in a show of his work at the Venice Biennale in 1978.

Vallcarca

Vallcarca, a limestone quarry complex with a now abandoned settlement in the Garraf Massif

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.

William McConnel

The company leased the land on which the Bryn Eglwys slate quarry stood and took over slate extraction operations.


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