Sandstone (BE.22.0006)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Quartzarenite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Neogene; Miocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Bolderberg Formation
- Rock name
- Quartzarenitic sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- groundwater silcrete; "Bolderian" quartzarenitic sandstone
- Additional information
- Age: Burdigalian/early Serravallian
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Belgium; Limburg (BE); Maasmechelen
- Site name
- Vallei van de Kikbeekbron
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
- "Vallei van de Kikbeekbron" is a former gravel and sand quarry, now nature reserve
- Natural color
- white to very pale orange
- Aged color
- rusty brown (due to soiling from loam)
- Components
- quartz; high intergranular porosity;
- Texture
- saccharoid; medium-grained
- Structure
- Weathering
- crumbly appearance due to high porosity
- Diagnostic features
- saccharoid quartz grains; porous
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH3.L1.A20
- Original inventory nr.
- A0103
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rounded to subangular quartz grains (dominantly monocrystalline); fine-grained intergranular quartz cement, quartz overgrowths
- Texture
- well-compacted; moderately to poorly sorted
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0006
- 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.