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  2. La Marche (cave) - Wikipedia

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    When French scientist Léon Péricard excavated La Marche between 1937 and 1942, he catalogued more than 1,500 slabs of limestone that had been placed carefully on the floor. In the past two decades an extensive inventory of the cave has been taken. 1,512 pieces have been found and numbered, 386 of which were deemed as compositional entities.

  3. Lutetian limestone - Wikipedia

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    Lutetian limestone (in French, calcaire lutécien, and formerly calcaire grossier) — also known as “Paris stone” — is a variety of limestone particular to the Paris, France, area. It has been a source of wealth as an economic and versatile building material since ancient Roman times (see Mines of Paris ) and has contributed markedly to ...

  4. Tuffeau stone - Wikipedia

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    Tuffeau stone — in French, simply tuffeau or tufeau — is a local limestone of the Loire Valley of France. It is characterized as a chalky or sandy, fine-grained limestone, white to yellowish-cream in appearance, and micaceous (containing some white flakes of mica, or muscovite ). The soft stone is extracted from numerous quarries and has ...

  5. List of types of limestone - Wikipedia

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    Lithographic limestone – Type of limestone with hard fine grain. Marble – Metamorphic limestone. Oolite – Sedimentary rock formed from ooids. Rag-stone – Work done with stones that are quarried in thin pieces. Shelly limestoneLimestone containing many fossils. Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs.

  6. Charmant Som - Wikipedia

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    Charmant Som is a mountain in the French department of Isère, rising to 1,867 metres (6,125 ft) in the Chartreuse Mountains in the Alps. It is made up of limestone, but its relief is less pronounced than that of the surrounding mountains, which is why it is covered with alpine meadows, the origin of its name.

  7. Caen stone - Wikipedia

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    Caen stone ( French: Pierre de Caen) is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in north-western France near the city of Caen. The limestone is a fine grained oolitic limestone formed in shallow water lagoons in the Bathonian Age about 167 million years ago. The stone is homogeneous, and therefore suitable for carving.

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