Location Details
- Location of Geological Feature
- Just to the South of the John Rylands Library, the whole plaza is paved in a single rocktype. They are two separate tones of gray igneous plaving slabs. The darker of the two is the same stone as the lighter type but has been flame treated.
- Rock Type
- Dolerite
- Geological Age
- Lower Cretaceous
- Quarry Location
- Fuding, Fujian Province, China.
- Category
- Igneous
- Nearest station
- Manchester Piccadilly
- Address
- Brazennose and Deansgate M3 3EH
- Find out more
- Stone identified by Ruth Siddall. The Manchester Geological Association have created a book, A Building Stones Guide to Central Manchester, ISBN 978-0-9928713-1-4. Third Edition 2014. Data from this was the basis for this entry, which was verified and updated where necessary.
Nearby
The closest other recorded buildings.