quarry

　 　 　

WordNet

1. extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; "quarry marble"
2. a man who works in a quarry (同)quarrier
3. the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry

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1. (狩猟の)獲物 / (一般に)追求されるもの,攻撃の的
2. 石切り場 / 〈石〉‘を'切り出す

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Not to be confused with Query.

For other uses, see Quarry (disambiguation).

Carrara quarry in Tuscany, Italy.

Portland stone quarry on the Isle of Portland, England

An abandoned construction aggregate quarry near Adelaide, South Australia

Stone quarry in Soignies, Hainaut (province), Belgium.

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground. A quarry is the same thing as an open-pit mine from which minerals are extracted. The only trivial difference between the two is that open-pit mines that produce building materials and dimension stone are commonly referred to as quarries.

The word quarry can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone.

Types of rock

Types of rock extracted from quarries include:

• Chalk
• China clay
• Cinder
• Clay
• Coal
• Construction aggregate (sand and gravel)
• Coquina
• Diabase
• Gabbro
• Granite
• Gritstone
• Gypsum
• Limestone
• Marble
• Ores
• Phosphate rock
• Sandstone
• Slate

Slabs

Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone, and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry. The surfaces are polished and finished with varying degrees of sheen or luster. Polished slabs are often cut into tiles or countertops and installed in many kinds of residential and commercial properties. Natural stone quarried from the earth is often considered a luxury and tends to be a highly durable surface, thus highly desirable.

Problems

Extraction work in a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy.

Quarries in level areas with shallow groundwater or which are located close to surface water often have engineering problems with drainage. Generally the water is removed by pumping while the quarry is operational, but for high inflows more complex approaches may be required. For example, the Coquina quarry is excavated to more than 60 feet (18 m) below sea level. To reduce surface leakage, a moat lined with clay was constructed around the entire quarry. Ground water entering the pit is pumped up into the moat. As a quarry becomes deeper, water inflows generally increase and it also becomes more expensive to lift the water higher during removal; this can become the limiting factor in quarry depth. Some water-filled quarries are worked from beneath the water, by dredging.

Many people and municipalities consider quarries to be eyesores and require various abatement methods to address problems with noise, dust, and appearance. One of the more effective and famous examples of successful quarry restoration is Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC, Canada.

A further problem is pollution of roads from trucks leaving the quarries. To control and restrain the pollution of public roads, wheel washing systems are becoming more common.

Quarry lakes

Main article: Quarry lake

Many quarries naturally fill with water after abandonment and become lakes. Others are made into landfills.

Water-filled quarries can be very deep with water, often 50 feet or more, that is often surprisingly cold. Unexpectedly cold water can cause a swimmer's muscles to suddenly weaken; it can also cause shock and even hypothermia. Though quarry water is often very clear, submerged quarry stones and abandoned equipment make diving into these quarries extremely dangerous. Several people drown in quarries each year. However, many inactive quarries are converted into safe swimming sites.

An abandoned limestone quarry in Rummu, Estonia.

See also

• Clay pit
• Coal mining
• Collecting fossils
• Gravel pit
• List of minerals
• List of rock types
• List of stones
• Miner
• Mountaintop removal mining
• Opencast mining
• Quarry lake
• Quarries (biblical)

References

External links

Media related to Quarries at Wikimedia Commons

Look up quarry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

English Journal

• Zeolitized tuffs in pedotechnique for the reclamation of abandoned quarries. A case study in the Campania region (Italy).

• Buondonno A, Grilli E, Capra GF, Glorioso C, Langella A, Leone AP, Leone N, Odierna P, Vacca S, Vigliotti RC.SourceDipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale "Luigi Vanvitelli", Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Abazia San Lorenzo ad Septimum, Borgo San Lorenzo, 81031 Aversa (CE), Italy. Electronic address: andrea.buondonno@unina2.it.
• Journal of environmental management.J Environ Manage.2013 Jun 15;122:25-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.02.013. Epub 2013 Mar 27.
• The present study aims to assess the evolution of different proto-horizons as embryonic soils built by pedotechnologies for the reclamation and management of derelict and damaged lands, such as abandoned quarries. The model proto-horizons were assembled by utilizing coarse limestone gravel or zeolit
• PMID 23542228

• Modulation of limbic-cerebellar functional connectivity enables alcoholics to recognize who is who.

• Pitel AL, Chanraud S, Müller-Oehring EM, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV.SourceDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine (MC5723), 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA, 94305-5723, USA, pitel@cyceron.fr.
• Brain structure & function.Brain Struct Funct.2013 May;218(3):683-95. doi: 10.1007/s00429-012-0421-6. Epub 2012 May 15.
• Chronic alcoholism is known to disrupt functions served by distributed brain systems, including limbic and frontocerebellar circuits involved in resting-state and task-activated networks subserving component processes of memory often affected in alcoholics. Using an fMRI paradigm, we investigated wh
• PMID 22585315

• The global availability of rabies immune globulin and rabies vaccine in clinics providing direct care to travelers.

• Jentes ES, Blanton JD, Johnson KJ, Petersen BW, Lamias MJ, Robertson K, Franka R, Briggs D, Costa P, Lai I, Quarry D, Rupprecht CE, Marano N, Brunette GW.SourceDivision of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Journal of travel medicine.J Travel Med.2013 May;20(3):148-58. doi: 10.1111/jtm.12024. Epub 2013 Mar 14.
• BACKGROUND: Rabies, which is globally endemic, poses a risk to international travelers. To improve recommendations for travelers, we assessed the global availability of rabies vaccine (RV) and rabies immune globulin (RIG).METHODS: We conducted a 20-question online survey, in English, Spanish, and Fr
• PMID 23577860

Japanese Journal

• 京都市山科区大塚・小山石切丁場刻印石の資料紹介

• 京都橘大学大学院研究論集. 文学研究科 (14), 28-22, 2016-03
• NAID 40020908637

• 地震時における大谷採石地下空間の安全性評価に関する検討

• 岩盤力学に関するシンポジウム講演論文集 44, 80-85, 2016-01-08
• NAID 40020743190

• 石灰石鉱山における亀裂調査のための物理探査手法の検討

• 公益社団法人物理探査学会学術講演会講演論文集 = Proceedings of the SEGJ Conference 135, 232-234, 2016
• NAID 40020998914

• 帯磁率ヒストグラムによる石垣石材の採石地同定 (総特集 文化地質学) -- (日本人の石材利用)

• 号外地球 = Chikyu monthly/special : カラー版 (66), 76-82, 2016
• NAID 40020926874

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