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Local Name(s): | Bath Stone - Westwood. | ||||||
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Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
Stone Type: | Limestone | ||||||
Geology: |
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Geological Sub-Divisons: | Great Oolite Sereis. Bathonian. |
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General Colour Description: | Cream to buff in colour. |
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Hand Specimen Description: | A medium grained, moderately well sorted, oolitic limestone. It is generally soft, not shelly with occasional rare large shells. Two beds of stone can be seen in a three metre deep face. It is the hard top bed that is used (Leary 1983: 20). |
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Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous,  Fossiliferous,  Oolitic. | ||||||
Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes |