Limestone

Définition et enjeux

Congrès géologique international,  Congrès géologique international… (1891)

“ TATE'S CLASSIFICATION, 1856-1868.
Upper or Calcareous group:-From the base of the Millstone Grit to the Dun Limestone—' the lowest limestone of any value.' Good workable limestones, interstratified among alterations of sandstone, shale, and coal; large number of marine organisms connected with the calcareous strata. Thickness, about 1700 feet.
Lower or Carbonaceous group :-From the base of the Dun Limestone to the top of the Tuedian group. Marked by the number, thickness, and quality of its coal seams ; limestones thin and generally impure; marine organisms in fewer numbers.
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Source : Gallica

Congrès géologique international,  Congrès géologique international… (1891)

“ The greater part of these gneisses being essentially granite, and having doubtless the same origin as granite, we must explain their intercalation with the limestone, quartzites, and. schists in some such way as this, or regard
the limestone and quartzite as of the same origin as the granite, which latter assumption is not warranted in the present state of petrographical science.
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Source : Gallica

Congrès géologique international,  Congrès géologique international… (1891)

“ Take the case of the Carboniferous Limestone. In Derbyshire and the south of Yorkshire it is a well-marked subdivision.lithologically perfectly defined, and to a certain extent palaeontologically also.But go no further than Scotland. The rocks deposited there about the same time with the Derbyshire Limestone are, the bulk of them, shales and sandstones; what limestones there are form an utterly insignificant part of the deposit, and the group has no well-defined top or bottom. ”
Source : Gallica

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