Urban fossils of Ottawa
1 Rideau Street (Chateau Laurier Hotel)
Indiana Limestone
Location: façade of building
Rock: limestone
Age: Carboniferous
Fossils: crinoids
Information and photographs: Quentin Gall. Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
More information: A Walking Guide - Ottawa’s Building and Monument Stones
1 Rideau Street (Chateau Laurier Hotel)
Indiana Limestone
Location: façade of building
Rock: limestone
Age: Carboniferous
Fossils: crinoids
Information and photographs: Quentin Gall. Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
More information: A Walking Guide - Ottawa’s Building and Monument Stones
Most of the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel (1908-1912) façade is Mississippian Indiana fossiliferous limestone
Tan colour bioclastic limestone with abundant crinoid ossicles (circular section with five-sided, star symmetry)