The building and ornamental stones of North Carolina (1906)
Watson, Thomas L. (Thomas Leonard), 1871-1924, Laney, Francis Baker, 1875-1938, Merrill, George P. (George Perkins), 1854-1929 · Raleigh, [N.C.] : E.M. Uzzell, Public Printer · leaf 289
arge blocks werenoticed in the embankment and very few of them showed any traces ofjoints. From one piece a block of stone, perhaps 5x8x12 feet, entirelyfree from flaws, and uniform in color and texture, could be obtained. The marble bed, while it may vary somewhat, has an average thicknessof about… … 80 ft. Fig. 4.—Pegmatitic dike (c) cutting the Mitchell County marble (6). The countryrock is a contorted typical mica schist (a), which at the contact with the marble Isquite calcareous. The exposure is by no means continuous, but boulders may be seen stick-ing out of the ground here and there.…
Building stones · Quarries and quarrying
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