- 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
- Related Material (same rock unit):
- Limerick Red Marble, Clonmacnoise Marble, Carrigacrump Limestone, Moneen Marble, Cloonagh (Clonagh) Limestone, Clorane (Clorhane) Limestone, Donoman (Dunnaman) Limestone, Kilbreedy Limestone, Rathkeale (Commons) Limestone, Tuogh Limestone, Cratloe (Crattloe) Limestone, Rynana (Rineanna) Limestone, Shandon Limestone, Whitechurch Limestone, Lismore Castle Limestone, Saleen Limestone, Muckross Red Marble
Notes:
Mottled grey biomicritic limestone with white patches of coarse calcite and containing rare fossils. Deposited in small mounds on the seabed during the Carboniferous period.
References
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