Author: Peter Stanier
Publisher: Shire Publications
ISBN: 9780852637289
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Whether they are still operational or long abandoned, quarries are often dismissed as eyesores. Despite this, they can be fascinating to visit, and provide an interesting link to a once powerful and necessary industry. Although the Romans worked quarries, it was not until the middle-ages that the industry became established on a large scale. It then achieved its height during the nineteenth century in response to industrialization and the associated demand for stone. The book deals with the extraction methods of various types of stone and the rise and slow decline of quarrying across the UK. While telling the history of quarrying it also covers some of the most famous and notable quarrying sites.
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Author: Alfred Michael Hirt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199572879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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The control over marble and metal resources was of major importance to the Roman Empire. Alfred Hirt's comprehensive study defines the organizational outlines and the internal structures of the mining and quarrying ventures under imperial control.
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Author: John Farey
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Author: Oliver Bowles
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Category : Anhydrite
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: Geological Society of London. Library
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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