< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
KENTISH RAG, a calcareous rock belonging to the Lower Cretaceous series. In the S. E. of England it is 60 or 80 feet thick. It is of marine origin. It was in a quarry of Kentish rag at Maidstone that the great Iguanodon mantelli was discovered.
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