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calp Min.|kælp|
[See quot. 1862; mod.F. has also calp.]
Local name of a species of dark-grey limestone occurring in Central Ireland.
1784Kirwan Min. (ed. 2) I. 233 Calp, or black quarry stone of Dublin. Colour, bluish black, or dark greyish blue, variously intersected with veins of white calcareous spar, and often invested with the same. 1803Ann. Rev. I. 872/2 The calp quarries are situated in the neighbourhood of Lucan. 1862Jukes Stud. Man. Geol. 512 This..has been called Calp from a local term signifying black shale. |