How many of you would feel confident about identifying "French"
vs. "Texas" limestone? Christopher
c,
Not me, I'm not a geologist neither. Sidney
Horenstein sounds solid to me. But if it is the Texas limestone
I know what that looks like. I have been to the hole it comes out of.
It was a hell of a fine trip to go find it. There may have been reasons
though that it was called French? For the George Rogers Clark memorial
in Vincennes, Indiana they had to say that the granite was no longer
available as at the time the specs for restoration were
writ I suspect that it was too politically sensitive to
mention that it may very well have come from Canada to begin with. And
we all know how the Canadians are about their Granite of Mass
Destruction (GMD).
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"New
stone shall be Texas Cordova shellstone. The
stone is fossiliferous limestone from the Cretaceous Age, mapped in the
Walnut
Formation. The original source of the stone is no longer available. It
was
located three miles west of Cedar Park, Texas, on the Travis and
Williamson
County line. The source currently available is fifteen miles north by
northwest
of the original quarry and is eight miles southwest of Liberty Hill,
Texas."
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