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What modern temple was built of limestone containing fossilized marine plants?

(Answer on page 13)

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(From page 2)

Elder James E. Talmage said: "The rock used in [the Logan Temple] was brought from the mountain quarries near by, and is a very hard, compact, dark-colored silicious limestone, locally called fucoid rock from its content of fossilized marine plants known as fucoids."

Source: The House of the Lord by Elder James E. Talmage, p. 185.

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