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Modern uses for Silurian Reefs

Close up of one of seven bronze sculptures (a crinoid) of Silurian sea life by artist Laura Priebe at Hartung Park located along the Menomonee River Parkway between Burleigh Street and Capitol Drive. Hartung Park is is a joint City of Milwaukee and City of Wauwatosa Park Carbonate rock of the Racine Formationwas quarried from this site from 1910 to 1961. The quarry was over 100 feet deep and approximately 3 millin tons of rock was quarried here. The quarry became a dump in the 1960's and in 2005 was converted into a park.
Close up of one of seven bronze sculptures (a crinoid) of Silurian sea life by artist Laura Priebe at Hartung Park located along the Menomonee River Parkway between Burleigh Street and Capitol Drive. Hartung Park is is a joint City of Milwaukee and City of Wauwatosa Park Carbonate rock of the Racine Formationwas quarried from this site from 1910 to 1961. The quarry was over 100 feet deep and approximately 3 millin tons of rock was quarried here. The quarry became a dump in the 1960's and in 2005 was converted into a park.
Today, Silurian reefs continue to play a few different roles in the world--ecologically and economically.

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These are seven bronze sculptures (Calymene Trilobite, Rugosa Coral, Brachiopod, Cephalopod, Eurypterid, and Crinoid) by artist Laura Priebe. They quarried carbonate rock of the Racine Formation from this site from 1910 to 1961. the quarry was over 100 feet deep and approximately 3 millin tons of rock was quarried here. The quarry became a dump and in 2005 was converted into a park.
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Close up of one of seven bronze sculptures (a crinoid) of Silurian sea life by artist Laura Priebe at Hartung Park located along the Menomonee River Parkway between Burleigh Street and Capitol Drive. Hartung Park is is a joint City of Milwaukee and City of Wauwatosa Park Carbonate rock of the Racine Formationwas quarried from this site from 1910 to 1961. The quarry was over 100 feet deep and approximately 3 millin tons of rock was quarried here. The quarry became a dump in the 1960's and in 2005 was converted into a park.
© The Field Museum - CC BY-NC