[See def.] Solenhofen slate or stone, a fine-grained variety of limestone, used esp. in lithographic printing, quarried in the upper beds of the Jurassic formation at Solenhofen in Bavaria. So Solenhofen bed.
1833–4. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 634/1. Solenhofen beds. In the centre of the German Jura … occur beds of white fissile limestone, now universally employed in lithography.
1841. Penny Cycl., XXI. 256/1. The Jurassic limestone of Solenhofen, commonly called the Solenhofen slate.
1882. Encycl. Brit., XIV. 698/1. The Solenhofen stone, in its chemical decomposition, consists of lime and carbonic acid.
