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Yellow Limestone Group information


Yellow Limestone Group
Stratigraphic range: Paleogene
TypeGroup
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CountryJamaica

The Yellow Limestone Group is a geologic group in Jamaica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.

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Yellow Limestone Group

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The Yellow Limestone Group is a geologic group in Jamaica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. Earth sciences portal Caribbean portal...

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Limestone

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give limestone an off-white to yellow to red color. The density of limestone depends on its porosity, which varies from 0.1% for the densest limestone to...

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Prorastomus

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paleontologist Sir Richard Owen in 1855, and, being found in Jamaica in the Yellow Limestone Group, pointed to the origin of Sirenia as being in the New World rather...

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Geology of Jamaica

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consists of pure limestones and dolomites. Locally the lowermost limestone is the Yellow Limestone Group, which consists of interbedded limestones and other...

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Caribbean

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Guinea Corn Formation at Fossilworks.org Barrettia Limestone at Fossilworks.org Blue Mountain Series Group at Fossilworks.org Harvey River Formation at Fossilworks...

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Hunton Megagroup

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The Hunton Megagroup also Hunton Super Group, Hunton Group, Hunton Formation and Hunton Limestone is predominantly composed of carbonate rock, deposited...

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Greenhorn Limestone

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orange seams in the weathered shale and the yellow/orange stainings of some of the weathered limestones in the Greenhorn are associated with volcanic...

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Fencepost limestone

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Fencepost limestone, Post Rock limestone, or Stone Post is a stone bed in the Great Plains notable for its historic use as fencing and construction material...

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Marcellus Formation

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in 1839. The Marcellus consists predominantly of black shale and a few limestone beds and concentrations of iron pyrite (FeS2) and siderite (FeCO3). Like...

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Medicago lupulina

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end in a short point.: 148 : 175  Black medick has small (2–3 mm) yellow flowers grouped in tight bunches (compact racemes). On larger plants the flower...

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List of birds by common name

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shearwater Yellow bishop Yellow bittern Yellow bunting Yellow canary Yellow cardinal Yellow chat Yellow grosbeak Yellow honeyeater Yellow longbill Yellow oriole...

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Buda Limestone

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have been recovered from the formation. The Buda Limestone is a dense white to yellow sparry limestone with numerous calcite veins that weathers to yellowish...

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Cladrastis kentukea

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Wood: Yellow to pale brown; heavy, hard, close-grained and strong. Sp. gr., 0.6278; weight of cu. ft., 39.12 lbs. Winter buds: Four in a group, making...

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List of RAL colours

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saturation and lightness (HSL) device-independent CMYK value: cyan, magenta, yellow, black or key LRV, but a consistent light reflectance value is not obtainable...

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Niobrara Formation

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structural units, the Smoky Hill Chalk Member overlying the Fort Hays Limestone Member. The chalk formed from the accumulation of coccoliths from microorganisms...

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Kentucky River Palisades

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relative to those on the south side. The thick dolomites and limestones of the High Bridge Group (Tyrone, Oregon, and Camp Nelson formations) are resistant...

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Clinohumite

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commonly found as indistinct grains embedded in limestone. Its type occurrence is within the limestone ejecta of the Mount Vesuvius volcano complex near...

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Red soil

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northern regions. There, the soil appears yellow in its hydrated form. This soil, also known as the omnibus group, have been developed over Archaean granite...

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Wulfenite

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orange-red to yellow-orange color, sometimes brown, although the color can be highly variable. In its yellow form it is sometimes called "yellow lead ore"...

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Andradite

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(1763–1838). It occurs in skarns developed in contact metamorphosed impure limestones or calcic igneous rocks; in chlorite schists and serpentinites and in...

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Verbascum phoeniceum

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planted on three different substratum soil types, serpentine, andesite and limestone. Results showed that plant morphology and anatomy varies with soil type...

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Ludlow Group

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m), Upper Ludlow sub-group formation (140 ft./43 m), Aymestry Limestone Formation (up to 40 ft./12.3 m), Lower Ludlow sub-group formation (350 to 780 ft...

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Grossular

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in Brazil and California. Grossular is found in contact metamorphosed limestones with vesuvianite, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite. A highly sought...

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Robinia pseudoacacia

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replaced with taller or more shade-tolerant species. It prefers dry to moist limestone soils but will grow on most soils as long as they are not wet or poorly...

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Calcium

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most common calcium compound on Earth is calcium carbonate, found in limestone and the fossilised remnants of early sea life; gypsum, anhydrite, fluorite...

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Jamaican boa

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The Jamaican boa, Jamaican yellow boa or yellow snake (Chilabothrus subflavus; in Jamaican Patois: nanka) is a boa species endemic to Jamaica. No subspecies...

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Epsomite

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its fibrous form. Epsomite forms as encrustations or efflorescences on limestone cavern walls and mine timbers and walls, rarely as volcanic fumarole deposits...

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Polypodium cambricum

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Polypodium cambricum, the southern polypody, limestone polypody, or Welsh polypody, is a species of fern in the family Polypodiaceae, native to southern...

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