 ... on the Tennessee River. The Weisner sandstone has furnished the material for many of the handsome buildings around Anniston. Granites and Other Igneous Rocks. — While these rocks have not been much quarried in Alabama, they occur in great quantities...  Bulletin - Geological Survey of Alabama - Page 591904Full view - About this book
 | Cement - 1903 - 534 pages
...fire-places, for which, notwithstanding its composition, it is most admirably adapted, fire-nlarfs which have been in use for fifty years being still...dome-like masses of naked rock, sometimes 200 acres cr more in extent. The largest of these flat rock areas are near Almond postoffice, in Randolph ; near... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1910 - 342 pages
...regular quarries have been opened. It is reported in a position favorable for quarrying at different points in Lee, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Randolph, Elmore, Chilton, Coosa, Cleburne, and Clay counties. The granite outcrops in low domelike masses of naked rock, some of them 200 acres or more in extent, locally... | |
 | George Samuel Rice - Coal mines and mining - 1910 - 820 pages
...regular quarries have been opened. It is reported in a position favorable for quarrying at different points in Lee, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Randolph, Elmore, Chilton, Coosa, Cleburne, and Clay counties. The granite outcrops in low domelike masses of naked rock, some of them 200 acres or more in extent, locally... | |
 | Geology - 1920 - 1184 pages
...quantities and in positions favorable for quarrying at many points in the crystalline area, chiefly in Lee, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Randolph, Elmore, Chilton,...Cleburne and Clay counties. The granites outcrop in "flat-rocks" which are low, dome-like masses of naked rock, sometimes 200 acres or more in extent.... | |
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