The Dalton quadrangle (Ga. - Tenn.), located in northwest Georgia within the Ridge and Valley province, is a fifteen-minute quadrangle with topographic base by the U.S. Geological Survey. Because of the excellence of the base map and the location of the quadrangle in an area of lower Paleozoic rocks, it was selected as a beginning point for a re-investigation of the geology of northwest Georgia.
One of the important steps in the making of leather is the process known as bating or puering. This operation consists in treating the limed, unhaired skins with materials containing a proteolytic enzyme absorbed on an inert material, plus a deliming salt such as ammonium sulfate. The object of the process is to reduce some of the alkalinity of the skin and remove, from the grain surface particularly, any substance which would interfere with subsequent tanning operations.