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| Local Name(s): | Forest Marble. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Limestone | ||||||
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Great Oolite Series. Forest Marble. |
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| General Colour Description: | Brown/grey limestone that weathers to a buff colour. |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | On the whole limestones from the Forest Marble vary from cross-bedded, sparsely oolitic and oyster-rich to massively bedded, very shelly, blue-hearted sparites (Prudden 2001: 53). Forest Marble from Henstridge is a hard, very fossiliferous limestone (slightly oolitic) with broken oyster shells set in a calcitic crystalline matrix. |
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| General Comments: | Forest Marble is not a true marble, but a fossiliferous limestone which takes a good polish. |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous, Fossiliferous, Oolitic. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes | ||||||
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