lithographic limestone

For many years, the Solnhofen deposits were the only source of lithographic limestone.

In addition, copper, lead, silver, gold and lithographic limestone have been extracted.

Several quarries above Montdardier were formerly important sources of lithographic limestone.

They defined a process of created a very durable photographic picture on a lithographic limestone printing plate.

Lithographic Limestone is plattenkalk chosen for its suitable lithography characteristics.

Some doubt also existed at first as to whether the feather was a real fossil from the Solnhofen lithographic limestone.

Other minerals extracted from township mines include copper, lead, silver, gold and lithographic limestone.

Trails of Limulus and supposed vertebrates from Solnhofen lithographic limestone.

Production in these quarries peaked during World War I when access to German lithographic limestone was cut off.

Zinc plates could be obtained for less expense than fine lithographic limestone, and could be acquired at very large scale.

A single fossil stomatopod larva has been discovered, in the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen lithographic limestone.

In 2002 the mortichnia of a horseshoe crab was found in lithographic limestone in Bavaria, Germany.

Lithographic limestone is hard limestone that is sufficiently fine-grained, homogeneous and defect free to be used for lithography.

All of the fossils come from the upper Jurassic lithographic limestone deposits, quarried for centuries, near Solnhofen, Germany.

Some of these maps were printed from zinc plates but many were printed from lithographic limestone plates.

Further specimens have been discovered in Upper Cretaceous lithographic limestones of Lebanon, and described as a new species, C. libanensis.

In 1903, Clement L. Webster discovered a bed of lithographic limestone about 2 miles southwest of Orchard, Iowa.

The ghost town of Lithograph City, about 2 miles southwest of Orchard, was founded in the early 1900s adjacent to quarries that produced lithographic limestone.

The quarrying of this lithographic limestone subsequently yielded spectacular finds, including Archaeopteryx, commemorated in the bird's full name Archaeopteryx lithographica.

The original source for lithographic limestone was the Solnhofen Limestone named after the quarries of Solnhofen where it was first found.

The sediments of the Sinemurian are again fully marine and carry a pelagic fauna (soft banded limestones and hard lithographic limestones).

It is the replacement generic name for Alligatorium depereti, which was described in 1915 from the Montsec Lithographic Limestone quarry of Spain.

A tablet of lithographic limestone, known as a "litho stone," is coated with a light-sensitive coating, comprising a thin layer of purified bitumen dissolved in benzene.

The lithographic limestones of Cerin are from the Kimmeridgian stage of the Upper Jurassic, and as with the Solnhofen deposits, they preserve numerous interesting fossils.

It has a large collection of fossils from the Solnhofen lithographic limestones, that once included a specimen of the early bird Archaeopteryx, the now missing Maxberg specimen.