Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. rock (inorganic material)
8. sedimentary rock
9. [sedimentary rock by composition]
10. carbonate rock
11. limestone
12. [limestone by composition]
13. [limestone by composition: aggregate type]
14. fossiliferous limestone

Narrower term/s

• pietra di Lecce

Anotations

Scope note:

Fossiliferous limestone composed of coral and shell and oolite particles or debris from erosion of older limestones. Calcarenites have been used as a building and ornamental stone, especially in the Apulia region of South Eastern Italy.