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S16.04.022Description
A conveyor belt carrying salt inside the Morton Salt, Inc., operation. The Morton Salt, Inc., facilities are at Fairport Harbor on the Grand River in Lake County, Ohio. Ohio's rock-salt deposits are confined to the Salina Group of the Silurian Geologic Period. The F unit of the Salina Group is the principal salt-bearing unit in Ohio and is further subdivided into four units. The F1 unit is mined at Fairport Harbor by Morton Salt, Inc. The underground mine is operated on a room and pillar system that leaves central pillars of salt to hold up the structure. The image was taken by Ralph J. Berhagen in 1961.
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For more information about the history of the Ohio's salt industry, see: Ohio's Salt Industry by Michael C. Hansen (Ohio Geological Survey, Ohio Geology Newsletter, Fall 1983) page 1+.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Conveyor belts carrying salt inside of mine. Morton Salt Incorporated in Grand River, Ohio.