Carboniferous Limestone

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Carboniferous Limestone is a thick sequence of fossil-rich sedimentary rocks formed in warm, shallow tropical seas during the Carboniferous period, widely exposed in regions such as the White Peak of the Peak District.

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Label Occurrences
Carboniferous Limestone canonical 5

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf carbonate rock
limestone
sedimentary rock unit
age Paleozoic
ageInMillionsOfYears approximately 359 to 299 Ma
associatedLandforms caves
dry valleys
gorges
karst
limestone pavements
climateOfFormation humid
tropical
depositionalSetting carbonate platform
epicontinental sea
diageneticFeatures cementation
stylolites
dissolutionFeature sinkholes
swallow holes
economicUse aggregate
building stone
cement manufacture
industrial minerals
lime production
environmentOfDeposition tropical shelf sea
warm shallow marine
geographicDistribution British Isles
parts of North America
Western Europe
surface form: western Europe
geologicalPeriod Carboniferous period
surface form: Carboniferous
notableExposure Brecon Beacons in Wales
surface form: Brecon Beacons, South Wales

Peak District
surface form: Derbyshire Peak District

Mendip Hills
surface form: Mendip Hills, England

South Wales Coal Measures
surface form: South Wales Coalfield margins

White Peak, Peak District, England
Yorkshire Dales
surface form: Yorkshire Dales, England
porosityType fracture porosity
karstic porosity
primaryComposition calcium carbonate
primaryMineral calcite
rockType fossiliferous limestone
stratigraphicPosition overlies Devonian rocks in many successions
underlies Millstone Grit in many successions
texture bedded
massive
typicalColour blue-grey
grey
typicalFossils brachiopods
corals
crinoids
foraminifera

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Input
Subject: Carboniferous Limestone
Description of subject: Carboniferous Limestone is a thick sequence of fossil-rich sedimentary rocks formed in warm, shallow tropical seas during the Carboniferous period, widely exposed in regions such as the White Peak of the Peak District.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

White Peak geology Carboniferous Limestone
Millstone Grit overlies Carboniferous Limestone
Fforest Fawr geology Carboniferous Limestone
Mendip Hills geologicalPeriod Carboniferous Limestone
Cheddar Gorge geologicalEra Carboniferous Limestone