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Limestone is widespread, particularly in En-;land and Wales. It is quarried cement hemical for cement and hemical manufacturing and for agricultural pur-loses, chiefly from beds of Lower Carboniferous .nd Cretaceous age. The highest quality lime-tone comes from northern Derbyshire.

About 98% of the cement produced in the United States is Portland cement, which is not a brand name but a type of hydraulic cement. The name was given in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin, a bricklayer of Leeds, England, to a hydraulic lime that he patented, because when set with water and sand, it resembled a natural limestone quarried cement hemical on the Isle of Portland in England. At about the same time it was discovered that an excellent cement could be made by pulverizing the nodules, called grappiers, which occasionally became sintered (that is, formed into a non-porous solid without melting) when hydraulic lime was fired.

Clays are sedimentary rock deposits important in paper and brick manufacture and in pottery and ceramics. China clay, or kaolin, is a clay formed as a result of action of hydrothermal solutions on the felspars in granite. Marls are mixtures of clay and calcium carbonate and are quarried cement hemical for the cement industry; limestone is exploited for building stones or for lime preparation.