Bluestone
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Photo: Antwerp quays in the South of Antwerp, at the former Zuidersluis
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Bluestone is the name given to several stones:
- a feldspathic sandstone in the U.S.,
- a form of limestone native to the Shenandoah Valley in the U.S.
- a form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken in Britain,
- a basalt or olivine basalt in Australia, and
- a type of limestone from the Hainaut quarries in Soignies, Belgium.
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