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Wisconsin Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Badger State (Geology Rocks!)
Wisconsin Rocks A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Badger State - Geology Rocks!
Author: Scott Spoolman
In the early 1800s, fortune-seeking miners in Wisconsin's lead district dug thousands of pits, earning the nickname "badgers" because their excavations resembled the holes dug by the burrowing mammal. Early settlers sought out other natural resources as well, with limestone quarried from the Niagara Escarpment along Lake Michigan, iron mined in ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780878426898
ISBN-10: 0878426892
Publication Date: 10/5/2018
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Mountain Press
Book Type: Paperback
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