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What is a dolostone?

What is a dolostone? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite.
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A walk over the property turned up layers of promising dolostone that was loaded with pockets in several areas and a generous scattering of hand-dug pits of various ages.
The canyon system cuts down through marine sandstone, siltstone and dolostone.
This outcrop was mapped as Upper Devonian Ohio Shale by Reidel and lies stratigraphically above a Middle Silurian dolostone.
Matrix minerals of the dolostone septaria are ferroan dolomite, quartz, calcite, and pyrite.
They sometimes are found together with dolostone concretions, barite nodules, or phosphatic nodules.
A lens-like conglomerate interbed, with flat pebbles of the underlying dolostone, occurs on the 3a and 3b boundary.

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