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MOST recent petrographic accounts of limestones utilize the classification of Folk1 as a basis for quantitative description, and as a convenient shorthand for general descriptions. During studies of English Upper Jurassic limestones it has been found that point-count results using Folk's categories do not adequately convey all the characters of a particular rock specimen.
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Folk, R. L., Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum. Geologists, 43, 1 (1959).
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Arkell, W. J., Mem. Geol. Surv. (G.B.), 341, 342, 343, etc. (1947).
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WILSON, R. Dual Classification for Point-counting Limestones. Nature 207, 849–850 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207849a0
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