Today Lynn and I went on a tour of several local quarries. It was sponsored by Parks and Rec and a local land trust. We went to 1) the Empire Quarry, where the limestone for the Empire State Building was quarried, 2) the Evans Quarry where we got to see a diamond saw cutting into limestone, 3) the Mitchell Quarry where limestone is quarried and then crushed for gravel, asphalt, and other commercial purposes, and 4) the Dishman Hindostan Whetstone Quarry, which is now part of the Sycamore Land Trust and is known for fossil tidal records.
Empire Quarry
Empire Quarry
Evans Quarry (the white box-like thing at the end of the track is the diamond blade cutter used to cut into the limestone)
Evans Quarry - stacks of limestone blocks
Evans Quarry - blocks marked with where they're going, where they came from, and the dimensions of the block
Evans Quarry - Lynn wants one of these
Mitchell Quarry
Fossil palm tree trunk at Dishman Quarry
Layers of Limestone at Dishman Quarry
2 comments:
Which one of these quarry's did they film in the movie Breaking Away?
The quarry in the movie was Sanders Quarry, but there are quite a few quarries in the area.
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