LIMESTONES

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SEDIMENTARY ROCK — rock formed at or near the Earth's surface by the accumulation and lithification of sediment (detrital rock) or by the …
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MARBLE — small, hard ball that is used in a variety of children's games and is named after the 18th-century practice of …
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LIMESTONE — sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), usually in the form of calcite or aragonite. It may contain considerable …
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GYPSUM — common sulfate mineral of great commercial importance, composed of hydrated calcium sulfate (CaSO4 2H2O). In well-developed crystals the mineral commonly …
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GEOCHRONOLOGY — scientific study concerned with the sequence of geologic events in the history of the Earth. Geologic history provides a conceptual …
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GAS RESERVOIR — in geology, naturally occurring storage area, characteristically a folded rock formation such as an anticline, that traps and holds natural …
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DOLOMITE — type of limestone the carbonate fraction of which is dominated by the mineral dolomite, calcium magnesium carbonate [CaMg(CO3)2]. For detailed …
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CYCLOTHEM — complex, repetitive stratigraphic succession of marine and nonmarine strata that are indicative of cyclic depositional regimes. Ideal cyclothem successions are …
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CONODONT — minute toothlike fossil composed of the mineral apatite (calcium phosphate); conodonts are among the most frequently occurring fossils in marine …
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CARBONATE MINERAL — any member of a family of minerals that contain the carbonate ion, CO32-, as the basic structural and compositional unit. …
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CALCITE — the most common form of natural calcium carbonate (CaCO3), a widely distributed mineral known for the beautiful development and great …
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UFA PLATEAU — Russian Ufimskoye Plato, plateau lying immediately to the west of the central Ural Mountains in Bashkortostan and in Sverdlovsk oblast …
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TRIASSIC PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. first period of …
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TRENTONIAN STAGE — division of Middle Ordovician time in North America (the Ordovician Period began about 500,000,000 years ago and lasted about 70,000,000 …
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SILURIAN PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. interval of geologic …
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PURBECK BEDS — uppermost division of Jurassic rocks in Great Britain. (The Jurassic Period lasted from 208 to 144 million years ago.) The …
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PERMIAN PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. last period of …
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ORDOVICIAN PERIOD — interval of geologic time from 505 to 438 million years ago. The second oldest period of the Paleozoic Era, it …
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MEXICO, NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF — Spanish Universidad Nacional Autnoma De Mxico, government-financed coeducational institution of higher education in Mexico City founded in 1551. The original …
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LEONARDIAN STAGE — post-Wolfcampian time of deposition of the Lower Permian Series of rock strata in the United States, especially well-developed in the …
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JURASSIC PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. second of three …
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HETTANGIAN STAGE — the lowest of 11 stages in the Jurassic System, consisting of rocks deposited globally during the Hettangian Age (208 to …
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GULF SERIES — major division of Upper Cretaceous rocks (66.4 to 97.5 million years old) in the Gulf coastal region of the United …
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FAMENNIAN STAGE — all those rocks deposited worldwide during the Famennian Age (367 to 360 million years ago). The Famennian and the underlying …
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ENGLAND, JOHN — born Sept. 23, 1786, Cork, County Cork, Ire. died April 11, 1842, Charleston, S.C., U.S. Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate …
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DEVONIAN PERIOD — interval of geologic time from 408 to 360 million years ago. The fourth period of the Paleozoic era, it follows …
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CRETACEOUS PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. third period of …
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CONEMAUGH SERIES — geochronological division of the Pennsylvanian Period in the United States, which is approximately equivalent to the Late Carboniferous Period (320 …
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CHESTERIAN SERIES — uppermost major stratigraphic division of North American rocks of the Mississippian Period (the Mississippian began about 345,000,000 years ago and …
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CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD — Table 4: Geologic time scale. To see more information about a period, select one from the chart. fifth interval of …
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