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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4208 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Rocky Mount Quarry Oct 24^th, 2011 at 9:46pm	Print Post
	The Tar Heel Gem and Mineral club of Raleigh, NC made a fieldtrip to the WakeStone Corporation quarry a few miles north of Rocky Mount this past Saturday, Oct 22. No one has been to this quarry in 10 or more years so there was no telling what we might find. Actually, we didn't find much, but what we saw was very interesting to see. This aggregate quarry is located on the eastern edge of the Piedmont and it was very nice to be able to see the different layers of deposited ancient "sea-shores" in the sands and clays that capped the Granite below. The Granite itself was of a different nature with more "pink" in some large areas, a black and white Diorite type, and a solid dense gray type of Granite called Tonalite. Not to mention several black Diabase dikes cutting through the middle of the pit. So even though we didn't find much, there was a lot to look at. The first pic is of us waiting for "someone-in-charge" to show up and let us in. Next are some pics of the black Diabase dikes first from a distance and then closer.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4208 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #1 - Oct 24^th, 2011 at 9:55pm	Print Post
	First pic is of Beth with the Pink Granite walls in the background.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4208 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #2 - Oct 24^th, 2011 at 9:58pm	Print Post
	What's this guy doing?

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4208 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #3 - Oct 24^th, 2011 at 10:11pm	Print Post
	Allright, that's enough of the bottom, let's go look at the top. If you've ever wondered what the ground looks like under all the miles of sandy plowed fields you see in this area of the state, this is the place to go. Coastal Plain deposits as much as 30 feet thick, with layers of gravel full of beautifully polished and rounded quartz pebbles, and maybe a sharks tooth or two.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4208 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #4 - Oct 24^th, 2011 at 10:18pm	Print Post
	A couple final shots of the Tar Heel fieldcrew, and a pic from northern Franklin County.

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Rebecca God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 653 Joined: Nov 11^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #5 - Oct 25^th, 2011 at 10:39am	Print Post
	That is cool. Thanks for documenting and sharing your trip and the quarry. I love those kind of views into the earth - like a cross-section.


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John Frazier Senior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 311 Joined: Jun 15^th, 2011	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #6 - Oct 26^th, 2011 at 5:14pm	Print Post
	Nice report...the top sounds very interesting.


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2974 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #7 - Oct 28^th, 2011 at 8:13am	Print Post
	Excellent report Joe. I did take pictures this trip, but not half as many as Joe did, so I'm very glad Joe did the report. The most interesting thing I found was a calcite vein that swirled in and around one of those diabase dikes. There were very small vugs that allowed for the calcite to crystallize. That's what I was looking at in the photos above.

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Collin Senior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 253 Joined: Dec 30^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Rocky Mount Quarry Reply #8 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 1:14pm	Print Post
	Does anyone know if this is the same location as the Tarheel trip this weekend? Did Hanson buy out the quarry? Thanks -Collin


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