- Material:
- Limestone
- Category:
- Carbonate, Sedimentary
- Alternative name(s):
- Limerick Red Marble, Limerick Marble
- Colour:
- Brownish-red
- Colour variation:
- Variegated
- Place of origin:
- Limerick, Ireland
- Rock Unit Name:
- Waulsortian Limestone
- Geological Age:
- Carboniferous, Dinantian, Tournaisian-Lower Visean
- GSI Rock Unit Code:
- WA
- Related Material (same rock unit):
- Carrigacrump Limestone, Clonmacnoise Marble, Clonony Marble, Clorane (Clorhane) Limestone, Cratloe (Crattloe) Limestone, Donoman (Dunnaman) Limestone, Howth Marble, Kilbreedy Limestone, Limerick Red Marble, Lismore Castle Limestone, Moneen Marble, Muckross Red Marble, Rathkeale (Commons) Limestone, Rynana (Rineanna) Limestone, Saleen Limestone, Shandon Limestone, Tralee Limestone, Tuogh Limestone, Waulsortian Limestone (undifferentiated), Whitechurch Limestone
Notes:
Weak breccia texture, variegated, wackestone, calcite veining, crinoidal debris.References
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