Special Reports on Petroleum, Coke, and Building Stones, Volume 31884 - Building stones - 832 pages |
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20 feet Archæan beds Berea Berea grit biotite biotite granite blue Blue-stone bridge buff building material building purposes building stone Carboniferous chiefly color compact Company conglomerate considerable construction crystalline crystals Dark gray Delaware Devonian diabase dolomite dressed durable exposure extensively quarried feet in thickness feldspar flagging formation furnish gneiss grain granite granite is quarried horizontal hornblende Hudson River inches Indistinctly laminated iron Irregular layers ledge Light drab light gray lime Lower Silurian Magnesian limestone marble Massive medium thick medium to thick miles east miles northeast miles west monument nearly Nicol prism obtained occur Ohio orthoclase outcrop parallel paving Pennsylvania polish porphyritic produced quarries quartz quartzite railroad rift river rock sandstone Semi-crystalline shale sheets SILICEOUS slate Slatington southwest strata stratification stratum structure Sub-Carboniferous surface syenite texture thin to medium thin to thick Triassic Ulster county Uneven Upper Silurian valley varying vesicular vicinity York