- Material:
- Limestone
- Category:
- Carbonate, Sedimentary
- Colour:
- Pale to medium Grey
- Colour variation:
- Variegated
- Grain/Crystal Size:
- Fine
- Place of origin:
- Ireland
- Rock Unit Name:
- Waulsortian Limestone
- Geological Age:
- Carboniferous, Dinantian, Tournaisian-Lower Visean
- GSI Rock Unit Code:
- WA
- Context of Use:
- Building stone and decorative marble
- 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, Shandon Limestone, Tralee Limestone, Tuogh Limestone, Whitechurch Limestone
Notes:
Mottled grey biomicritic limestone with white patches of coarse calcite and containing rare fossils. Deposited in mounds on the seabed during the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) period.
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