Carrara marble is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It is quarried in the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana, the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy.
Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of dimension or building stone varieties, including:
Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material.
The Granite Railway was one of the first railroads in the United States, built to carry granite from Quincy, Massachusetts, to a dock on the Neponset River in Milton. From there boats carried the heavy stone to Charlestown for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument. The Granite Railway is popularly termed the first commercial railroad in the United States, as it was the first chartered railway to evolve into a common carrier without an intervening closure. The last active quarry closed in 1963; in 1985, the Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres (8.9 ha), including Granite Railway Quarry, as the Quincy Quarries Reservation.
Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates are the most mined materials in the world. Aggregates are a component of composite materials such as concrete and asphalt; the aggregate serves as reinforcement to add strength to the overall composite material. Due to the relatively high hydraulic conductivity value as compared to most soils, aggregates are widely used in drainage applications such as foundation and French drains, septic drain fields, retaining wall drains, and roadside edge drains. Aggregates are also used as base material under foundations, roads, and railroads. In other words, aggregates are used as a stable foundation or road/rail base with predictable, uniform properties, or as a low-cost extender that binds with more expensive cement or asphalt to form concrete.
The Quincy Quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, produced granite for over a century and were the site of the Granite Railway—often credited as being the first railroad in the United States. A 22-acre (8.9 ha) section of the former quarries is owned and operated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation as a public recreation area.
Riker Hill Fossil Site is a 16-acre (6.5 ha) paleontological site in Roseland in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, located at the south western side of the borough at the border between Roseland and Livingston. It is one of the major sites in United States where a large number of dinosaur tracks are preserved. It was declared a National Natural Landmark in June 1971.
Milford pink granite, also known as Milford granite or Milford pink is a Proterozoic igneous rock located in and around the town of Milford, Massachusetts, covering an area of approximately 39 square miles (100 km2), as mapped by the USGS.
Tunnicliff Hill is a mountain located in Central New York region of New York by Snowdon, New York.
Cornish Hill is a small mountain chain, made of two main elevations the tallest being 2,231 feet (680 m). Cornish Hill is located in the Central New York region of New York southeast Cooperstown, New York.
Hawk Hill is a mountain located in Central New York region of New York east of Dogtown, New York.
Angel Hill is a mountain located in Central New York region of New York south of Exeter Center, New York.
Badeau Hill is a mountain located in Central New York region of New York northwest of Elk Creek, New York.
Darling Hill is a mountain located in Central New York Region of New York west of Westford, New York.
Dog Hill is a mountain located in Central New York region of New York north of Maryland, New York.
Elliot Hill is a mountain in the Central New York Region of New York. It is located east of Gothicville, New York.
Filer Hill is a mountain in the Central New York region of New York. It is located east of Rootville, New York.
Kilkenny Hill is a mountain in the Central New York region of New York, USA. It is located northwest of Unadilla, New York. Kilkenny Hill is part of the Northern Allegheny Plateau Ecoregion.
Calder Hill is a small mountain chain in the Central New York region of New York. It is located north of Otego, New York. It is made of two main peaks with the highest being 1841 feet.
Gifford Hill is a small mountain chain in the Central New York Region of New York. It is located northeast of Oneonta, New York. It is made of three main peaks the highest being 1928 feet. Gifford Hill is named for the Gifford Family who moved to the area in 1803 and settled along the Oneonta Creek on what is now called Gifford Hill.
