• Bituminous limestone is limestone impregnated and sometimes deeply colored with bituminous matter derived from the decomposition of animal and plant remains...
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    types of limestone arranged according to generic type and location. This section is a list of generic types of limestone. Bituminous limestone Carboniferous...
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    Marquina marble (mármol Negro Marquina) is a high quality, black bituminous limestone extracted from the region of Markina, Basque Country in northern...
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  • Older Parian Group (category Limestone groups)
    Older Parian Group is a geologic group in Trinidad and Tobago. The bituminous limestone preserves fossils of Didymotis trinidadensis dating back to the Aptian...
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    by mixing bitumen, pitch, and sand, or manufactured from natural bituminous limestones, used to pave streets and walks, to line cisterns, etc.", used as...
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  • fossiliferous limestone serpentinite, occasionally ophicalcite micritic limestone bituminous limestone limestone Carboniferous Limestone stromatolitic limestone crinoidal...
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    Creveney shale mining Saint-Ambroix Other: Pechelbronn oil mine Dallet bituminous limestone Uranium occurs naturally in France, including in the granite massifs...
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    Bituminous waterproofing systems are designed to protect residential and commercial buildings. Bitumen (asphalt or coal-tar pitch) is a material made up...
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    which appears a ritual scene before a temple façade; 3500–3100 BC; bituminous limestone; height: 4.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Ram in...
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    of oil shales formed of fine-grained sediments intercalated with bituminous limestones and crops out in a number of locations in southwestern Germany,...
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    easiest to carve, though hard and medium hard limestone, basalt, dolomite, marble and bituminous limestone were also used on occasion. The vessels made...
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    American English terms asphalt (or asphaltic) concrete, bituminous asphalt concrete, and bituminous mixture are typically used only in engineering and construction...
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    part of the 19th century; here it is associated with emerald in a bituminous limestone of Cretaceous age. Closely allied to parisite, and indeed first described...
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    Bitumen (redirect from Bituminous)
    concrete, which is colloquially termed asphalt. Its other main uses lie in bituminous waterproofing products, such as roofing felt and roof sealant. In material...
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  • levels of the Rotzo Formation, composed by bituminous limestones and marly limestones (fenestrate limestones and tempestites) with several episodes of...
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    fossils are found in finely laminated to medium-bedded, nodular bituminous limestones. Miaohe-type biota characterizes assemblage of algal macrofossils:...
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    a subtidal environment and is composed of dark grey, thin-bedded bituminous limestone. It is the most fossiliferous of the Dengying Formation members and...
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  • Shibantan Member is the bituminous limestone section of the formation. It is unusual for Ediacaran biota to be preserved in limestone. As such, C. ediacaranus...
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    Elk Point Group (category Limestone groups of the United States)
    Elk Point Group are composed primarily of carbonate rocks (dolomite and limestone) and evaporitic rocks (halite, anhydrite and potash), with lesser amounts...
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    was a United States Air Force installation in northeastern Maine, near Limestone and Caribou in Aroostook County. It was one of the largest bases of the...
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  • Eocene, similar deposition to the Cretaceous took place, including bituminous limestone and marl. Rifting began in the Oligocene, forming the Jordan Rift...
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  • nonmarine Duvernay Formation Late Devonian Frasnian bituminous limestone, argillaceous limestone marine Edmonton Group Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene...
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  • and intraoosparitic limestones with bituminous dolomites. The next sequence is represented by the Bivalve-rich "Lithiotid" Limestone (40 m) made up of dark...
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    above the Burgan field was known to humankind since Neolithic times, bituminous material from a reed boat discovered in As-Sabiyah/North Kuwait and dated...
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  • manufacturing process employed at Cubitt Town involved the heating of bituminous limestone in six large uncovered cauldrons, producing vapours considered offensive...
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    found in the Guanling Formation, which consists of thinly bedded bituminous limestones and marls. The specimens found have important Mixosaurid characteristics...
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    Horn River Formation (category Limestone formations of Canada)
    composed of dark siliceous and calcareous shale, and argillaceous bituminous limestone. The Horn River Formation is included in the Beaverhill Lake Group...
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    (Trachycerasschichten, Aonschichten) represented by dark, often bituminous limestone and calcareous shale alteration containing abundant Trachyceratitic...
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  • or lithified by burial Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs Tufa – Porous limestone rock formed when carbonate minerals precipitate...
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    Oil sands (redirect from Bituminous sand)
    Venezuela is sometimes described as oil sands, but these deposits are non-bituminous, falling instead into the category of heavy or extra-heavy oil due to...
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