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| Local Name(s): | Brandon Grit. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Sandstone | ||||||
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Silesian. Namurian. Millstone Grit. |
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| General Colour Description: | Buff to brown or occasionally grey in colour, sometimes the centre of a large block will be blue but this fades to brown in a few years (Leary 1986: 96). |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | Quartz-feldspathic sandstone which is hard, medium to coarse grained and thickly cross bedded. |
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| General Comments: | 'York Stone' is a generic name for this rock. |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Granular. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | No | ||||||
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