Examples of quarry

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Because they are often used with wedges and sledge hammers in quarrying, they are included at this point in the chapter.
The work processes involved in quarrying and transport will be described separately because they are sufficiently distinct to require special treatment.
I have found that few art-historical studies and conservation reports include attempts to relate the carved work to the quarrying process or place.
The size of the quarries must have allowed several crews to work at once.
Four types of quarries are found in a relatively small area, no more than four square kilometers.
Since limestone is usually quarried with vertical breaks between horizontal beds, most limestone quarries will show some form of steps.
The other fissures have been destroyed by quarrying operations.
The mountains and valleys, whether surrounding the northern slate quarries, the rural hill farms, or the industrialized south, generated a peculiarly intense environment.
Remains from ancient quarries and modern experience both demonstrate that very large blocks can be easily obtained.
The interrelationship of techniques will be discussed in more detail in the chapters on quarrying and in the studies of particular works.
The way the columns are quarried determines how the streaking will run in the finished product.
Color complicates the simple problem of quarrying the largest usable block possible.
The later sculptors, even with marble quarries only two kilometers away, were scavenging earlier works.
By the 1780s both portraits and fancy pictures were increasingly quarried by engravers and publishers to satisfy the demands of an ever-expanding audience for prints.
The cool, grey limestone and the warm-hued gritstone which form the traditional building materials are still being quarried.
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