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| Local Name(s): |
Alberbury Stone, Cardeston Stone. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Breccia | ||||||
| Geology: |
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Formerly known as the Erbistock Beds. |
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| General Colour Description: | A reddish brown coloured stone with lighter coloured limestone fragments. |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | Extremely tough, coarse grained, poorly sorted breccia, comprising quartz pebbles, red marl and angular to subangular fragments of Carboniferous limestones welded into a calcareous, sandy matrix (Scard 1990: 80 - 81). |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes | ||||||
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