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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Quarries in Kosovo, Quarries in South America, Quarries in the United Kingdom, Quarries in the United States, Isle of Portland, Cold Spring Granite, Mountsorrel, Walcott-Rust quarry, Stone City, Iowa, Frazier Quarry, Wunsiedel Marble, Dalkey Quarry, Queenston, Ontario, Tudek Site, Pipestone National Monument, Rota Latte Stone Quarry, Double Arches Pit, Headington Quarry, Chivay obsidian source, Tilly Whim Caves, Dutchess Quarry Cave Site, Quarries of the Mendip Hills, Stringfellow Acid Pits, Zimmerman Kame, Public Quarry at Government Island, Emborough Quarries, Rock of Ages Corporation, Carbaugh Run Rhyolite Quarry Site, Institute of Quarrying, Cloford Quarry, Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting, Winspit, Fairy Cave Quarry, Thornton Quarry, Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting, Moon's Hill Quarry, Burlington Slate Quarries, Windsor Hill Quarry, Cook's Wood Quarry, Holwell Quarries, Massachusetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry, Lengenbach Quarry, Snowdon Hill Quarry, Viaduct Quarry, Hobbs Quarry, Hawkesbury Quarry, Barnton Quarry, Carreg yr Imbill, Chalbury Hill And Quarry, Cave di Cusa, Staro ikatovo, Goathill Quarry, Lehigh Permanente Quarry, Independent & Admiralty Quarries, Shillingstone Quarry, Frogden Quarry, Cloud Quarry, Korrotice e Eperme, Ozark Southern Stone quarry, Spixworth Quarry. Excerpt: The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, 6 kilometres (4 mi) long by 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) wide, in the English Channel. Portland is 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of the resort of Weymouth, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England. A tombolo over which runs the A354 road connects it to Chesil Beach and the mainland. Portland and Weymouth together form the borough of Weymouth and Portland. The population of Portland is almost 13,000. Portland is a central part of the Jurassic ...