Sandstone (BE.22.0004)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Ferruginous sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Neogene; Miocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Diest Formation
- Rock name
- Diestian ferruginious sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
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Age: Tortonian/early Messinian
Lag deposit
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- Belgium; Limburg (BE); Halen
- Site name
- Halen (undefined outcrop)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
- field find from the Halen region (precise coordinates undefined)
- Natural color
- orange-brown, gingerbread
- Aged color
- Components
- limonite; goethite; unweathered glauconite; black flint pebbles
- Texture
- conglomeratic
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- contains black flint pebbles (=> basic gravel of Diest Formation)
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0004
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-04-27.