Merrill, George P. · John Wiley & Sons, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., · leaf 247
the group offossil limestones, as, for instance, the red and white variegatedTennessee marbles. Crinoidal limestones are made up of fossilcrinoidal fragments. Hull, Building and Ornamental Stones, pp. 279, 2S1. 202 STONES FOR BUILDING AND DECORATION. Shell limestones or shell sand-rocks as they are… … rock is of the same nature, excepting that it is composed offragments of corals. Chalk is a fine white limestone composedlargely of the minute shells of foraminifera. Magnesian Limestones; also called Dolomitic Limestones.—Under this head are included those limestones which contain10 per cent and…
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