Piedmont Gravel Quart











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Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Piedmont Gravel Quart ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red.

Texture: Fine grain

Luster: Viterious

Translucency: Opaque to semi translucent on thin edges
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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Piedmont Gravel Quart is associated with various formations which have floated down prehistoric rivers in the northeastern Mississippi belt.  The headwaters of these rivers drained from the Appalachian Mountains into Mississippi and Alabama.
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