Indian Limestones in Christ Church

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One of the blocks of Salem limestone in the south steps of the church features a nautiloid (a cephalopod) almost two feet in length: 

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Finally, in contrast to the Hoosier Paleozoic marine limestones visible from the outside, a much younger carbonate rock of non-marine origin and much more distant provenance is found in the floor of the foyer. It's a travertine, almost certainly of Quaternary age and probably quarried in Idaho or Italy.  

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The change from ancent rugged Indiana limestones on the exterior to an exotic modern stone on the interior thus provides a symbolic architectural transition from the midwestern environment on the outside to something much younger and of non-Hoosier origin on the inside.