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Marlstone   Listen
noun
Marlstone  n.  (Geol.) A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.






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... have crystallised in transparent spar, and then they form very beautiful objects, as smooth and polished as the best lapidary could possibly make them. Belemnites are generally found in immense numbers together, especially in the marlstone quarries of the Midlands, and in the lias cliffs of Dorsetshire. Yet the quarrymen who find them never seem to have their faith shaken in the least by the enormous quantities of thunderbolts that would appear to have struck a single spot with such extraordinary ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Marlstone" :   marlite, metamorphic rock



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