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Local Name(s): | Lodsworth Stone. | ||||||
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Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
Stone Type: | Sandstone | ||||||
Geology: |
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Geological Sub-Divisons: | Lower Greensand, Hythe Beds. |
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General Colour Description: | A greenish-grey or brownish-grey coloured stone with moderate dark flecks. |
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Hand Specimen Description: | A hard, medium grained, silicified, glauconitic quartz sandstone with characteristic swirls and stringers of dark cherty material, rich in glauconite. Fossil worm burrows are frequently picked out in this material (Peacock 1987: 62). |
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Stone Identifiers: | Glauconitic,  Granular. | ||||||
Reacts dilute to HCl? | No |