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Local Name(s): |
Penselwood Stone, Shaftesbury Sandstone. |
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Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
Stone Type: | Sandstone | ||||||
Geology: |
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Geological Sub-Divisons: | Upper Greensand. Shaftesbury Sandstone. |
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General Colour Description: | A brown/grey colour. |
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Hand Specimen Description: | A hard, shelly, calcite-cemented, fine-grained, glauconitic sandstone (Prudden 2004). |
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Stone Identifiers: | Granular,  Glauconitic,  Calcareous,  Fossiliferous. | ||||||
Reacts dilute to HCl? | No |