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Near Wenlock it consists of thick masses of grey subcrystalline limestone, replete with corals, encrinites, and trilobites.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

In some places, and especially at Aymestry, in Herefordshire, a subcrystalline and argillaceous limestone, sometimes 50 feet thick, overlies the shale.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

They appear, in fact, to consist of nothing but concentric layers of carbonate of lime, disposed in subcrystalline fibres, or prisms, perpendicular to the layers.

From On the Method of Zadig by Huxley, Thomas Henry