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97 relations: A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Alfred Church Lane, Alger County, Michigan, Apatite, Aquifer, Arkose, Arthur Edmund Seaman, Bayfield group, Blast furnace, Calumet Township, Michigan, Cambrian, Cambrian Series 3, Clastic rock, Conglomerate (geology), Dimension stone, Face (mining), Facies, Ferrous metallurgy, Flagstone, Fluvial, Freda Sandstone, Furongian, Garnet, Geological formation, Grand Island Township, Michigan, Great Chicago Fire, Great Lakes, Heavy mineral, Hiawatha National Forest, Ilmenite, Intrusive rock, Iron County, Wisconsin, John Henry Jacobs, Keweenaw Fault, Keweenaw Peninsula, Keweenawan Supergroup, Lake Superior, Lens (geology), Leucoxene, List of sandstones, Lithology, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, Mafic, Marquette County, Michigan, Mesoproterozoic, Michigan Geological Survey, Midcontinent Rift System, Middle Run Formation, Moraine, Munising Formation, ..., Munising, Michigan, Neoproterozoic, Northern Michigan University, Ontario, Oronto Group, Outcrop, Overburden, Paleocurrent, Paleomagnetism, Panic of 1893, PDF, Penokean orogeny, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Plagioclase, Potassium feldspar, Potsdam Sandstone, Quartz arenite, Quincy Street Historic District, Radon, Richardsonian Romanesque, River delta, Rubble masonry, Saint Ignatius Loyola Church, Sandstone, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Scree, Silicic, Siltstone, Snowball Earth, The Calumet Theatre, The Daily Mining Gazette, The Mining Journal, Till, Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, Michigan, Tourmaline, Unconformity, Undulose extinction, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Uranium, Waldorf Astoria New York, Wawa, Ontario, Wayne County Building, Weathering, Works Progress Administration, World War I, World's Columbian Exposition, Zircon. Expand index (47 more) »
A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum
The A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, currently located on the campus of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, is the official mineral museum of the state of Michigan and is a heritage site of the Keweenaw National Historical Park.
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Alfred Church Lane
Alfred Church Lane (January 29, 1863 – April 15, 1948) was an American geologist and teacher.
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Alger County, Michigan
Alger County is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Apatite
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ions, respectively, in the crystal.
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Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
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Arkose
Arkose is a detrital sedimentary rock, specifically a type of sandstone containing at least 25% feldspar.
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Arthur Edmund Seaman
Arthur Edmund Seaman (December 29, 1858 – July 10, 1937) was a professor at the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) and curator of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum which bears his name.
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Bayfield group
The Bayfield group is a quartz sandstone found in Wisconsin along the Lake Superior coast.
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Blast furnace
A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
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Calumet Township, Michigan
Calumet Township is a charter township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Cambrian
The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Cambrian Series 3
Cambrian Series 3 is the still unnamed 3rd Series of the Cambrian.
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Clastic rock
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.
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Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts, e.g., granules, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders, larger than in diameter.
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Dimension stone
Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and finished (i.e., trimmed, cut, drilled, ground, or other) to specific sizes or shapes.
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Face (mining)
In mining, the face is the surface where the mining work is advancing.
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Facies
In geology, a facies (pronounced variously as, or; plural also 'facies') is a body of rock with specified characteristics, which can be any observable attribute of rocks such as their overall appearance, composition, or condition of formation, and the changes that may occur in those attributes over a geographic area.
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Ferrous metallurgy
Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys.
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Flagstone
Flagstone (flag) is a generic flat stone, usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, fences and roofing.
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Fluvial
In geography and geology, fluvial processes are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them.
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Freda Sandstone
The Freda Sandstone is a geologic formation in Michigan.
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Furongian
The Furongian is the fourth and final series of the Cambrian.
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Garnet
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.
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Geological formation
A formation or geological formation is the fundamental unit of lithostratigraphy.
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Grand Island Township, Michigan
Grand Island Township is a civil township of Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.
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Heavy mineral
In geology, a heavy mineral is one with a density that is greater than 2.9 g/cm3, most commonly referring to dense components of siliciclastic sediments.
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Hiawatha National Forest
Hiawatha National Forest is a National Forest in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan in the United States.
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Ilmenite
Ilmenite, also known as Manaccanite, is a titanium-iron oxide mineral with the idealized formula.
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Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
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Iron County, Wisconsin
Iron County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
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John Henry Jacobs
John Henry Jacobs (April 18, 1847 – 1934) was a pioneer of the sandstone industry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,Eckert, p. 31 particularly of Jacobsville Sandstone.
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Keweenaw Fault
The Keweenaw Fault is a reverse fault that bisects the Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Keweenaw Peninsula
The Keweenaw Peninsula (sometimes locally /ˈkiːvənɔː/) is the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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Keweenawan Supergroup
The Keweenawan Supergroup is a supergroup of volcanic and sedimentary rocks that fill the Midcontinent Rift System in the U.S. states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
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Lake Superior
Lake Superior (Lac Supérieur; ᑭᑦᒉᐁ-ᑲᒣᐁ, Gitchi-Gami) is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America.
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Lens (geology)
In geology, a lens or lentil is a body of ore or rock that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges, resembling a convex lens in cross-section.
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Leucoxene
Leucoxene is a fine granular alteration product of titanium minerals.
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List of sandstones
This is a list of types of sandstone that have been or are used economically as natural stone for building and other commercial or artistic purposes.
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Lithology
The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples or with low magnification microscopy, such as colour, texture, grain size, or composition.
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Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional is a township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
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Mafic
Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron, and is thus a portmanteau of magnesium and '''f'''err'''ic'''.
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Marquette County, Michigan
Marquette County is a county located in the Upper Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.
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Mesoproterozoic
The Mesoproterozoic Era is a geologic era that occurred from.
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Michigan Geological Survey
The Michigan Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Midcontinent Rift System
The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) or Keweenawan Rift is a long geological rift in the center of the North American continent and south-central part of the North American plate.
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Middle Run Formation
The Middle Run Formation is a geologic formation in Ohio.
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Moraine
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.
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Munising Formation
The Munising Group or Formation is a thick, white to light grey Cambrian sedimentary unit that crops out in Michigan and (to a lesser extent) Ontario.
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Munising, Michigan
Munising is a city on the southern shore of Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from.
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Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University (NMU) is a public university in Marquette, Michigan.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Oronto Group
The Oronto Group is a thick group of arkose sandstone and shale located beneath the Bayfield Group in northern Wisconsin,Bulletin, p. 48.
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Outcrop
An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth.
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Overburden
In mining, overburden (also called waste or spoil) is the material that lies above an area that lends itself to economical exploitation, such as the rock, soil, and ecosystem that lies above a coal seam or ore body.
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Paleocurrent
A paleocurrent or paleocurrent indicator is a geological feature (typically a sedimentary structure) that helps one determine the direction of flowing water in the geologic past.
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Paleomagnetism
This term is also sometimes used for natural remanent magnetization. Paleomagnetism (or palaeomagnetism in the United Kingdom) is the study of the record of the Earth's magnetic field in rocks, sediment, or archeological materials.
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Panic of 1893
The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 and ended in 1897.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Penokean orogeny
The Penokean orogeny was a mountain-building episode that occurred in the early Proterozoic about 1.86 to 1.83 billion years ago, in the area of Lake Superior, North America.
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a U.S. National Lakeshore on the shore of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.
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Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.
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Potassium feldspar
Potassium feldspar refers to a number of minerals in the feldspar group, and containing potassium.
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Potsdam Sandstone
The Potsdam Sandstone, more formally known as the Potsdam Group, is a geologic unit of mid-to-late Cambrian age found in Northern New York and northern Vermont and Quebec and Ontario.
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Quartz arenite
A quartz arenite or quartzarenite is a sandstone composed of greater than 90% detrital quartz, with limited amounts of other framework grains (feldspar, lithic fragments, etc.) and matrix.
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Quincy Street Historic District
The Quincy Street Historic District is a historic district located along the 100, 200, and 300 blocks of Quincy Street, along with 416 Tezcuco Street, in Hancock, Michigan.
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Radon
Radon is a chemical element with symbol Rn and atomic number 86.
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Richardsonian Romanesque
Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886), whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston (1872–1877), designated a National Historic Landmark.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Rubble masonry
Rubble masonry is rough, unhewn building stone set in mortar, but not laid in regular courses.
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Saint Ignatius Loyola Church
Saint Ignatius Loyola Church is a church located at 703 East Houghton Avenue in Houghton, Michigan.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste.
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Scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, volcanoes or valley shoulders that has accumulated through periodic rockfall from adjacent cliff faces.
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Silicic
Silicic is an adjective to describe magma or igneous rock rich in silica.
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Siltstone
Siltstone is a sedimentary rock which has a grain size in the silt range, finer than sandstone and coarser than claystones.
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Snowball Earth
The Snowball Earth hypothesis proposes that Earth surface's became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, sometime earlier than 650 Mya (million years ago).
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The Calumet Theatre
The Calumet Theatre is a historic theatre located at 340 Sixth Street in the town of Calumet, Michigan.
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The Daily Mining Gazette
The Daily Mining Gazette is a newspaper published in Houghton, Michigan.
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The Mining Journal
The Mining Journal is the predominant daily newspaper of Marquette, Michigan, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Till
Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.
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Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, Michigan
Torch Lake Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a crystalline boron silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium.
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Unconformity
An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous.
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Undulose extinction
Undulose extinction or undulatory extinction is a geological term referring to the type of extinction that occurs in certain minerals when examined in thin section under cross polarized light.
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula (UP), also known as Upper Michigan, is the northern of the two major peninsulas that make up the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.
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Waldorf Astoria New York
The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Wawa, Ontario
Wawa is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within the Algoma District and associated with Wawa Lake.
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Wayne County Building
The Wayne County Building is a lowrise government structure located at 600 Randolph Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.
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Weathering
Weathering is the breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms.
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Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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Zircon
Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsville_Sandstone
