Sandstone (BE.22.0008)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Ferruginous sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Neogene; Miocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Diestian ferruginious sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
- Crust-like limonitic bed
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- Belgium; Vlaams-Brabant; Holsbeek
- Site name
- Galgenberg
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
- field find
- Natural color
- dark brown
- Aged color
- Components
- quartz; limonite; goethite; rare unweathered glauconite
- Texture
- sandy; coarse grained
- Structure
- ferricrete (cf. pedogenic terminology)
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- limonitic crustlike concretions in glauconitic sand (sample RD43)
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH3.L1.A24
- Original inventory nr.
- A0093
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- A0094 (sample RD43b - ARCH3.L1.A25)
- Components
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monocrystalline quartz (dominant); polycrystalline quartz (rare); lithic fragments (chert, sandstone); rare feldspars and heavy minerals (zircon); some relict grains of glauconite (oxidized); cement: goethite rims around sand grains
- Texture
- poor sorting of the sand grains (min. grain size 40 microns, max. 800 microns); angular, subangular to subrounded; sand grains often cracked
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0008
- 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: 2024-04-23.