Stop Q: Levine Museum - Building Stone Walking Tour of Uptown Charlotte (sitios de interés)
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Stop Q: Levine Museum of the New South
200 East Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
The recently renovated museum re-opened on October 13, 2001. The museum provides a comprehensive examination of post-Civil War Southern society, history and sociological evolution for the city and region, through interactive exhibits, events, lectures and workshops.
Q1: Orange-colored exterior cladding
The cladding stone used at street level of the Levine Museum is from a limestone quarry in Lueders, Texas. The Lueders Limestone ranges from brown to gray in color and is categorized as a fine to coarse grained, bioclastic packstone (grain to grain contact with mud cement) to wackestone (grains ‘floating’ in mud matrix). The Lueders Limestone contains both fragmented body fossils (ex: shells in Figure 56) and abundant trace fossils
(Figure 57). These trace fossils record the behavior (e.g. burrowing) of organisms rather than their morphology. Trace fossils visible in this rock include planolites, a straight to gently curved horizontal burrow, as well as arthrophycus.
The Lueders Formation is the uppermost member of the Albany Group which occurs on the eastern shelf of the Midland Basin. This limestone was deposited during the Early Permian (~275.6 ± 0.7 to 270.6 ± 0.7 million years ago) when a shallow sea covered this part of West Texas.
Q2: White-colored exterior cladding
This oolitic limestone (Figure 58) was also quarried near Lueders, Texas. This limestone is a fine grained, grayish white carbonate grainstone composed of ooids (see Stop A for more information on ooids) and shell fragments, including gastropods (obvious from their elongated spiral morphology). Put your nose or a hand lens on the rock to see the small
ooids. The visible swirling pattern in some tiles is cross bedding. This bedding is due to the deposition of the carbonate particles in ripples and dunes migrating on the shallow sea floor.
200 East Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
The recently renovated museum re-opened on October 13, 2001. The museum provides a comprehensive examination of post-Civil War Southern society, history and sociological evolution for the city and region, through interactive exhibits, events, lectures and workshops.
Q1: Orange-colored exterior cladding
The cladding stone used at street level of the Levine Museum is from a limestone quarry in Lueders, Texas. The Lueders Limestone ranges from brown to gray in color and is categorized as a fine to coarse grained, bioclastic packstone (grain to grain contact with mud cement) to wackestone (grains ‘floating’ in mud matrix). The Lueders Limestone contains both fragmented body fossils (ex: shells in Figure 56) and abundant trace fossils
(Figure 57). These trace fossils record the behavior (e.g. burrowing) of organisms rather than their morphology. Trace fossils visible in this rock include planolites, a straight to gently curved horizontal burrow, as well as arthrophycus.
The Lueders Formation is the uppermost member of the Albany Group which occurs on the eastern shelf of the Midland Basin. This limestone was deposited during the Early Permian (~275.6 ± 0.7 to 270.6 ± 0.7 million years ago) when a shallow sea covered this part of West Texas.
Q2: White-colored exterior cladding
This oolitic limestone (Figure 58) was also quarried near Lueders, Texas. This limestone is a fine grained, grayish white carbonate grainstone composed of ooids (see Stop A for more information on ooids) and shell fragments, including gastropods (obvious from their elongated spiral morphology). Put your nose or a hand lens on the rock to see the small
ooids. The visible swirling pattern in some tiles is cross bedding. This bedding is due to the deposition of the carbonate particles in ripples and dunes migrating on the shallow sea floor.