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UL Lafayette was constructed in an area underlain by the Pleistocene Prairie Complex. These are ancient Mississippi River deposits, consisting of gray to brown clays, silts, and sands with some gravel that are overlain by several meters of loess, an eolian silt veneer. The near-subsurface geology consists of alternating flat lying clays, muds, and sands reflecting the gradual evolution of the area from an estuarine marine environment to a low energy fluvial environment (stream and related overbank flood deposits) characteristic of the Gulf Coast.
The Lafayette Geological Society and the Louisiana Geological Survey are sources of further information as well as virtual field trips into the Gulf Coast region.
The building stones used in UL Lafayette buildings present good examples of a variety of rock types otherwise not found in the Lafayette area.
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Granite from UL Lafayette Foundation monument (click for close-up)
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The UL Lafayette campus is constructed primarily from brick, concrete, cement, steel, glass, aluminum, bronze, asphalt, linoleum, and plastic. All these are produced from natural rocks, minerals, and mineraloids, extracted from the Earth. "If it can't be grown, it has to be mined" (Dr. Tim Duex). Cement = produced from crushed and roasted limestone mixed with clay. Concrete = a man-made conglomerate or breccia, formed from a mixture of cement and gravel (conglomerate ) or cement and crushed rock (breccia).
There is also a scattering of natural building stone on campus. The following web pages show a few of those.
This is work in progress. If you have more information, know of some really cool building stones we might not be aware of, or want to contribute please drop us a line at geoweb@louisiana.edu! |
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| Forrest K. and Chantal Dowty Foundation Building (by Lauren Slovacek) |
| Broussard Hall (by Elisabeth Hamlin) |
| Montgomery Hall (by Charles Vise) |
Bicentennial of the Constitution Monument (by Ryan Dupree)
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