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Here's a quiz to test your powers of mineralogical observation. Send your answers to "Read the Rocks," Harvard Magazine, 7 Ware Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Or submit them via this webpage by November 20. The answers will appear in the January-February issue. From among the correct submissions, the editors will randomly select one winner to receive a copy of senior editor John T. Bethell's forthcoming book, Harvard Observed (which will be published next year during this magazine's centennial celebration), and a walking tour of the campus guided by author David Williams (transportation to Cambridge not included).

1. Where at Harvard will one find mega-tonnage of 480-million-year-old white marble from quarries near Dorset, Vermont? The oldest quarries in the state, opened in 1785, they also provided marble for the New York Public Library, the Jefferson Memorial, and the U.S. Supreme Court Building. Weathering along the darker bands has been caused by the freeze/thaw cycle.

2. What academic building displays gray-black Rockport Granite, from quarries near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, with conspicuous drill holes in some blocks that indicate how the rock was quarried?

3. This frog inhabits a buff sandstone capital from Berea, Ohio, and has dragonflies, owls, and various fantastical creatures for neighbors. Name the building and the species of human Harvardian most often seen there.

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