I’m interrupting the fall scenery photos to show you where I was yesterday afternoon---at an open house at a local limestone quarry. I get emails from a rock club (maybe I’ll join someday) and they recently sent info about the event. I decided to go since I’ve never visited a quarry before.
After arriving at the front gate parking area, visitors were taken by blue bus into the main part of the quarry:
After listening to a short informational talk which included the safety rules, we were free to walk around. One of the rules was to stay at least ten feet away from the walls in case of falling rocks:
Different types of limestone are quarried here. I thought the various layers were interesting:
Some of the visitors had hammers or rock picks with them so they could hunt for the brachiopod fossils that are found in one area of the quarry. Mostly it was parents with young children out for a fun and interesting afternoon adventure. I just walked around and looked at everything and took photos (after making sure that was allowed). The calcite deposits caught my eye. They sparkled in the sunlight but I wasn’t able to capture that in a photo. This one was about a foot wide:
At the bottom of the quarry were pools of water coming from the springs that are uncovered down there:
I had a great time! Here’s one last shot with the fall foliage on the top rim brightened up a bit:
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3 comments:
That would be an interesting visit! Glad you shared with us.
Thanks for sharing this! There were a couple of quarries in the town where we used to live. It was a given that we'd have a broken windshield at least once a year from a passing truck! I had never been IN the quarry, though! It has since been turned into a subdivision!
So much to see - and just below Iowa's not so deep soil.
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