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| Local Name(s): | Gebdykes Limestone. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Limestone | ||||||
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Zechstein Group, Cadeby Formation, Lower Magnesian Limestone. |
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| General Colour Description: | A cream coloured stone which can vary from grey to buff. |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | A fine grained, hard, compact dolomitic limestone which is well sorted with a smooth feel. It has a dense interlocking texture of fine grained dolomite crystals and there are some narrow veins infilled by coarse sparry calcite cystals. The iron oxide content is very low (Hart 1988: 10). |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Magnesian/Dolomitic. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | No | ||||||
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