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English: Block Limestone is typically a relatively thin, fine-grained well consolidated limestone in a single even bed, or parted by the occasional thin shale later as observed here. It is the Middle Limestone of a cylothem, created in moderately deep seas while seawater was quickly rising. The slabs are 6-8 inches thick. (Round Grove Creek, Raytown, Missouri.)
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Camera location39° 01′ 08.17″ N, 94° 28′ 02.53″ W  Heading=106° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Block Limestone is typically a relatively thin, fine-grained well consolidated limestone in a single even bed. Created in moderately deep seas while seawater was quickly rising. The slabs are 6-8 inches thick. (Round Grove Creek, Raytown, Missouri.)

15 April 2025

39°1'8.170"N, 94°28'2.528"W

heading: 106.0 degree

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