marlstone

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From marl +‎ stone.

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marlstone (countable and uncountable, plural marlstones)

  1. (geology) Marl when hardened into stone.
    • 1961 July, C. P. Walker, P. H. V. Banyard, “Leicester's Belgrave Road branch lives another year”, in Trains Illustrated, page 414:
      The steady climb eastwards has lifted us from the Soar Valley at Leicester into the marlstone (or ironstone) country of the Middle Lias which, at this point, forms a ridge of high ground over 700ft above sea level, []

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