Lockport dolostone riprap along the Niagara River in Black Rock

Definitions:

• Lockport: city about 15 miles northeast of Buffalo
• dolostone: a magnesium-rich sedimentary rock resembling limestone; a white or light-colored material

Characteristics:

• very hard; harder and more resistant than limestone
• similar composition to limestone

Uses:

• crushed for fill,
• drainage
• cement aggregate
• macadam
• riprap
• fertilizer
• furnce refractory
• ceramic material
• Walls reinforcing lake Erie property along Route 5 because dolostone is highly resistant to erosi

Information provided by: http://ah.bfn.org