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| Local Name(s): |
Bath Stone - Stoke Ground, Bath Stone - Stoke Ground, Limpley Stoke. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Limestone | ||||||
| Geology: |
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Oolitic limestone from Bath Oolite Horizon. |
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| General Colour Description: | Cream to light brown in colour. Two beds are quarried, firstly the Top Bed, a cream buff coloured rock which mellows to a honey colour, and the Base Bed which is a light buff colour. |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | A hard, medium grained, oolitic limestone which is moderately well sorted with variable proportions of shell debris. The Top Bed is a fine grained oolitic limestone, whereas the Base Bed is a creamy-buff colour with a fairly coarse structure and many small pieces of shell (Leary 1983: 19). |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous, Fossiliferous, Oolitic. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes | ||||||
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