Shandon Limestone

Material:
Limestone
Category:
Carbonate, Sedimentary
Colour:
Grey
Place of origin:
Waterford, 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, Cloonagh (Clonagh) Limestone, 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, Tralee Limestone, Tuogh Limestone, Waulsortian Limestone (undifferentiated), Whitechurch Limestone

Notes:

Apparently siliceous and difficult to work (Rivington's 1879, p. 72).

References

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