The most of stone building blocks on faces of Romanic St. Emmeram Church of Nitra is cut from Sarmatian limestone. The blocks in secondary position probably come from the first stone church in our territory of the 9th century that was built by Pribina prince (Pivko, 2007). The stone blocks are from whitish porous biomicritic limestone. It is the most often homogenous, medium-grained (to coarse-grained) limestone with grains about 0.3-0.5 mm, rarely it is evidently oomicritic, sometimes fine-grained biomicrite. Micrites are locally washed. Many shells are dissolved. Locally there are large fossils diffused in finer matrix or as very coarse layer with gastropods and bivalve molds, worm tubes and algaes. In one stone block the lumachelle with probably carbonate clasts up to 4 cm also bored are present.
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