Sculp and cleavage in slate quarry

Sculp and cleavage in slate quarry

Nonmetallic Mineral Resources

Sculp and cleavage in slate quarry, Pen Argyl.; View of beds of slate and quarry operations along northeast side of lowest working level in Jackson-Bangor #6 Quarry, Pen Argyle, Pa. The beds strike N 53° E and dip 22° N. "Sculp" or grain fractures are vertical faces on the blocks to right and left of workman, who kneels on a cleavage surface. "Hard rolls" or sandy beds show in wall just above his head.

Stone, Ralph W. (Ralph Walter), 1876-1964

1923-07-18

Northampton

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