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| Local Name(s): | Stonesfield Slates. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Sandstone | ||||||
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Base of the Great Oolite. |
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| General Colour Description: | A cream to grey coloured stone. |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | A hard, well sorted, fissile, medium grained, calcareous sandstone. The best slates consist of 'concretionary, impersistent masses of flaggy calcareous grey sandstone, streaked and shot with white ooliths and fossils' (Arkell 1947: 132). |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous, Oolitic. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | Yes | ||||||
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