A compact fine-grained yellowish limestone used in lithography. It sometimes contains finely preserved Upper Jurassic fossils.
Example sentencesExamples
- They're from this special kind of matrix called a lithographic limestone.
- They occur flattened on bedding plane surfaces of light-brown lithographic limestone.
- The Solnhofen lithographic limestones are Late Jurassic in age and occur beneath a large part of Bavaria, southern Germany.