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  2. Limestone - Wikipedia

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    The Green River Formation is an example of a prominent freshwater sedimentary formation containing numerous limestone beds. [70] Freshwater limestone is typically micritic. Fossils of charophyte (stonewort), a form of freshwater green algae, are characteristic of these environments, where the charophytes produce and trap carbonates.

  3. List of types of limestone - Wikipedia

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    Purbeck Marble – Fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone) Sussex Marble – Limestone Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Pages displaying short descriptions with no spaces (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous freshwater limestone)

  4. Category:Limestone formations - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Limestone formations" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 374 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Category:Limestone - Wikipedia

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    Limestone is a geological rock formed primarily from calcium carbonate and in water. It is produced principally during periods when there is a high proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . It varies greatly in its hardness and in the materials included in it so its commercial uses vary.

  6. Sumatran freshwater swamp forests - Wikipedia

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    The Sumatran freshwater swamp forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0157) covers disconnected patches of freshwater swamp forest on the alluvial plains of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. The different locations vary greatly in their vegetation and wildlife habitat depending on the local soil types.

  7. Geology of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    The tectonics processes in Indonesia formed major structures in Indonesia. The most prominent fault in the west of Indonesia is the Semangko Fault or the Great Sumatran Fault, a dextral strike-slip fault along Sumatra Island (about 1,900 km). The formation of this fault zone is related to the subduction zone in the west of Sumatra.

  8. Sussex Marble - Wikipedia

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    Sussex Marble is a fossiliferous freshwater limestone material which is prevalent in the Weald Clay of parts of Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex in southeast England. It is also called Petworth Marble, Bethersden Marble or Laughton Stone in relation to villages where it was quarried, [1] and another alternative name is winklestone.

  9. Geilston Bay fossil site - Wikipedia

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    The limestone deposit (in a form known as travertine) in which the fossils occurred was extensively mined (possibly completely) for the production of lime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its location, while still publicly accessible, now lies buried beneath landfill under the playing fields of the former Geilston Bay High ...