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Penselwood Stone

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Local Name(s): Penselwood Stone,
Shaftesbury Sandstone.
Example of Penselwood Stone
Stone Group: Sedimentary
Stone Type: Sandstone
Geology:
Era:   Mesozoic
Period:   Cretaceous
Epoch:   Lower
Geological Sub-Divisons:

Upper Greensand. Shaftesbury Sandstone.

General Colour Description:

A brown/grey colour.

Hand Specimen Description:

A hard, shelly, calcite-cemented, fine-grained, glauconitic sandstone (Prudden 2004).

Stone Identifiers: Granular,  Glauconitic,  Calcareous,  Fossiliferous.
Reacts dilute to HCl? No