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Local Name(s): | Bolsover Moor Stone. | ||||||
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Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
Stone Type: | Limestone | ||||||
Geology: |
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Geological Sub-Divisons: | Don Group, Cadeby Formation (formerly known as Lower Magnesian Limestone). |
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General Colour Description: | A cream/buff to a warm yellowish brown colour with tiny black flecks. Permian limestones such as these frequently weather to dark grey. |
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Hand Specimen Description: | A medium grained, hard, granular, micaceous, dolomitic limestone. It is well sorted with a rough feel. Occasionally a few sparsely scattered angular grains of quartz can be detected usually with a hand lens (Howe 1910: 195). |
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Stone Identifiers: | Magnesian/Dolomitic. | ||||||
Reacts dilute to HCl? | No |