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KSPG Fall Fieldtrip, November 2-4, 2000
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Panoramic view of the Vulcan Materials Reed Quarry
Field trip guidebook (in pdf format, WARNING 12 Mb!)
Images from the field trip (click on the thumbnail images to get a larger image):
All photos © 2000 by Brandon C. Nuttall. Camera used is a digital Olympus C-3030 zoom.
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Breakfast at Days Inn, Mayfield
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Hauler at Old Hickory Clay Co., Marshall Pit
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Excavator at Marshall Pit
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Fragments of log recovered from clay
(on bench)
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Failure on back highwall of Marshall Pit
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Clay-filled root structures in lignite
overlying main clay deposit
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Clay-filled root structures in lignite
overlying main clay deposit
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Log, diagonal lines are tool marks of
teeth on bucket of excavator
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Overall view of Marshall Pit
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View of pit wall showing
rapid oxidation of clay
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Field trip group watching excavator
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Loading toilets into a hauler
at the Marshall Pit
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Lignite blocks
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Scour zone in continental deposits
(Lafayette Gravel) at Marshall Pit
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Stop 2: Old Hickory Clay Co. storage shed and processing plant.
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Old Hickory Clay Co. storage shed
and processing plant |
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Clay segregated into piles based on physical
and chemical properties
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Organic- and illite-rich clay
destined for toilets
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Tertiary leaf fossil
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Tertiary leaf fossil (found by Steve Martin)
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Cast of leaf in picture 122
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Feed hopper for shredder
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Controls for drying ovens, used for
moisture content control
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Drying oven
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Mill with internal "whizzer" for
controlling final powder size
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Loader getting clay for a
particular product mix
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Slurry intended for casting as toilets
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Slurry tanks
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Much of the clay from Old Hickory's operations was destined for "sanitary ware."
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Where all the clay was going
toilet and tiles
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Stop 3: Powell Pit, sand and gravel.
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Sorted sand and gravel piles at Powell Pit
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Working face at Powel Pit
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Lafayette gravel showing poor sorting
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Stop 4: Clastic dikes near Symsonia.
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Clastic dike with large tabular body
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Small vertical clastic dike
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Clastic dike, Roy VanArsdale in picture
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Stop 5: Geologic hazards, landslides at Hickman, Kentucky.
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Downtown Hickman, block cleared
for park, shot along inside
of floodwall
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Downtown Hickman, shot along
[virtually abandoned] main street
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Dr. Kiefer telling group the story
of Hickman (from top of floodwall)
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Area of slurry trench, view
from top of floodwall showing
riprap
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Corps of Eng. Remediated slide, shotcrete
covering of slope held together
by 80' +/- soil nails
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Stop 6: Vulcan Materials, Reed Quarry
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Vulcan Materials, Reed Quarry
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Hauler being loaded on quarry bench
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Zoom in on scene in picture 154
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Quarry panorama picture 1 (left panel)
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Quarry panorama picture 2 (center panel)
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Quarry panorama picture 3 (right panel)
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60' +/- high waterfalls at quarry bench edges
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View of our destination, bottom of quarry
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Zoomed view of falls into quarry
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GPS at bottom of quarry showing
elevation of 36' below sea level
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Camera is faster than the
speeding geologist
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Bioherm (mud mound) in Ft. Payne
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View of quarry floor from Ft. Payne
bioherm
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Onlapping beds on flank of Ft. Payne
bioherm
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[Distant] view of Ft. Payne bioherm
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Chart showing section and model
of bioherm
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Stylolites (pressure solution features)
in bryozoan-crinoid grainstone facies
of Ullin
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Hauler (85-90 tons per load)
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