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Museum Gardens Retaining Wall

Carboniferous Limestone

  • Fossil
  • Limestone
  • Lower Carboniferous

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Location of Geological Feature
A modern wall built to stabilise the SW side of the Roman Wall is constructed from glacial cobbles set in concrete. These include cobbles of fossiliferous carboniferous limestone.
Rock Type
Limestone
Geological Age
Lower Carboniferous
Quarry Location
Northern Britain
Category
Fossil
Nearest station
York
Address
Museum Street YO1 7DT
Date of build
1960
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Stone identified by Yorkshire Philosophical Society Geology Group & Ruth Siddall.
Museum Gardens Retaining Wall — Carboniferous Limestone
Carboniferous Limestone at Museum Gardens Retaining Wall
Carboniferous Limestone at Museum Gardens Retaining Wall (detail 2)
    Entry submitted by Ruth Siddall

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