British and Foreign Building Stones

Absorp AUSTRALIAN BASALT beds BIOTITE-GRANITE Light building material building purposes building stone built CaCO3 calcareous Cambridge CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE Cathedral Chalk Chemical Composition chiefly COAL MEASURES coarse-grained colour compact construction Crushing strain cube Dark blue-grey Dark grey decorative district employed for building EOCENE example extensively employed ferruginous fine-grained sandstone FREESTONE FRENCH LIMESTONE Geology GERMAN SANDSTONE Government of Queensland GRANITE Granite Quarries grav greenish grey Hill Quarries HORNBLENDE INFERIOR OOLITE Island JURASSIC K₂O KEUPER known Light cream Light drab Light grey Light yellow LOWER medium-grained sandstone miles MILLSTONE GRIT MIOCENE mottled MUSCOVITE-BIOTITE-GRANITE NORTH AMERICAN GRANITE OLD RED SANDSTONE PERMIAN polish porphyritic Presented by Messrs Quarries rock SILURIAN SiO2 Spec specimen from quarries specimen indicates specimen shews Stone Quarries strain per sqr structural purposes texture tint tons Beare tons Kirkaldy town TRIAS TUFF U.S.A. Presented Weight per cub Würtemberg Würtemberg Weight yield Yorkshire Presented