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Bed of gravel about 6 to 12 inches thick overlying ledge of limonite and underlying light colored sand in old cut of Docray brown iron ore mine of Woodward Iron Company near west property line adjacent to Blue Pond pit of Central Iron & Coal Company Friedman mine. Gravel consists largely of rounded quartz pebbles but contains some subangular chert pebbles. Charles Morgan in view. SW1/4, Sec. 9, T. 21 S., R. 6 W. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 3, 1929.
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Cross-bedded clayey sand, probably of Tuscaloosa age, displaying lavender and white colors which are not well differentiated in the picture. Southwest end of Martaban brown ore pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
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Northeast end of old Martaban brown iron ore pit of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company looking southwest. Taken shortly after period of heavy rainfall. NE1/4, Sec. 2, T. 21 S., R. 6 W. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 3, 1929.
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Panorama with image 1505. Martaban brown iron ore pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Cut a few hundred feet northeast of exposure shown in image 1503 showing similar sequence of deposits but more black clay and less limonite. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
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Martaban pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. View of portion of cut shown in panoramic images 497 and 1498 showing red loam overlying ledge of brown ore up to the surface. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
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Martaban pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. View at right of image 1499 showing folded black clay grading along bedding planes into yellow clay having similar structure. Limonite and soil lie above the clay to the surface. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
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Near Goethite, Alabama. Brown iron ore washer of Republic Iron & Steel Company on Bush property. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 9, 1929.
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About one and one-half miles south-southeast of Tannehill Station on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad. Stacks of old Tannehill charcoal blast furnace on property of Republic Iron & Steel Company. Furnace consists of three stacks (double in foreground and single in distance) built of local carboniferous sandstone. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 14, 1929.
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Martaban pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Cut on southeast side of pit showing limonite below cover of Tuscaloosa sand and clay. Limonite pitches toward right following contour of buried mass of Conasauga limestone indicated by mass of black clay just above water level at right of center. Old pit contains water probably to depth of 25 feet or more, and at the right of view (southwest) the stripping has become so thick, probably reaching 40 to 50 feet, that mining has been discontinued. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
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Martaban pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Panorama with image 1498. View showing folded black clay probably residual from Conasauga limestone overlain by ledge of limonite. David De Jarnette in view. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
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Tuscaloosa formation, consisting of sands and clays, with interbedded ferruginous layers, Huntsville road, 1.5 miles east of Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Circa 1907. Plate 2-A in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 81. 1914.
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Panorama with images 1511, 1512, and 1513. Martaban brown iron ore mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Panorama of folded Conasauga limestone beds in old tramway cut leading northwest from Martaban mine pit. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 10, 1929.
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Mass of Conasauga limestone in Martaban brown iron ore pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company left after mining out the brown iron ore which surrounded it. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
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Martaban brown iron ore pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Cut showing black clay at base with massive brown iron ore above overlain by sandy ferruginous beds, white sandy clay of Tuscaloosa age, and red loam at the surface. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. December 8, 1929.
    map background search result map search result map Martaban pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. 1929. Panorama of Martaban brown iron ore mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. 1929. Tuscaloosa formation, consisting of sands and clays, with interbedded ferruginous layers, Huntsville road, 1.5 miles east of Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Circa 1907. Martaban pit of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. 1929. Panorama of Martaban brown iron ore mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. 1929. Tuscaloosa formation, consisting of sands and clays, with interbedded ferruginous layers, Huntsville road, 1.5 miles east of Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Circa 1907.