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Local Name(s): | Stonesfield Slates. | ||||||
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Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
Stone Type: | Sandstone | ||||||
Geology: |
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Geological Sub-Divisons: | Base of the Great Oolite. |
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General Colour Description: | A cream to grey coloured stone. |
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Hand Specimen Description: | A hard, well sorted, fissile, medium grained, calcareous sandstone. The best slates consist of 'concretionary, impersistent masses of flaggy calcareous grey sandstone, streaked and shot with white ooliths and fossils' (Arkell 1947: 132). |
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Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous,  Oolitic. | ||||||
Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes |