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Burlington Blue Grey Slate

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Local Name(s): Burlington Blue Grey Slate. Example of Burlington Blue Grey Slate
Stone Group: Metamorphic
Stone Type: Slate
Geology:
Era:   Palaeozoic
Period:   Silurian
Epoch:   Upper
Geological Sub-Divisons:

Upper Silurian, (Wray Castle Formation).

General Colour Description:

A blue/grey colour.

Hand Specimen Description:

A fine grained, hard, compact slate which is well sorted with a smooth feel. It is an altered Upper Silurian siltstone (Stanier 1995).

Stone Identifiers: Foliated.
Reacts dilute to HCl? No