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| Local Name(s): | Leckhampton Stone. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Limestone | ||||||
| Geology: |
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Bajocian, Lower Inferior Oolite. Sometimes called the 'Cheltenham Beds.' |
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| General Colour Description: | Two types can be found on Leckhampton Hill, a cream coloured stone and a orange and brown coloured stone which is more shelly in composition. |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | Our sample is a hard, moderately well sorted, fine to medium grained, oolitic limestone. Two different rock specimens can be worked from the same quarry, the first is a fine grained oolite similar to Painswick Stone, and the other is the 'Weather Bed', a tough grained ferruginous oolite (Watson 1911: 168). |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous, Fossiliferous, Oolitic. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes | ||||||
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