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| Local Name(s): | Petitor Marble. |
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| Stone Group: | Metamorphic | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Marble | ||||||
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| General Colour Description: | There are three varieties: 'Petitor Grey and Pink', 'Petitor Grey' (also known as Petitor Spot) which is generally grey in colour but with fossils and 'Petitor Pink' which is mainly pink with brown and red markings and veins and patches of grey and yellow (Davey 1976: 11). |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | A fine grained, very hard, crystalline stone. It is well sorted with both a smooth feel and a hackly fracture. |
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| General Comments: | 'Devonian marble' is a term used to cover a range of Middle Devonian limestones which have been deformed by earth movements so that the corals appear elongated, but the fossil content has not been totally destroyed. Devonian limestones are partly metamorphosed and for this reason some architectural authorities classify them as marble (Dove 1994: 25). |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes | ||||||
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