Sandstone (BE.22.0009)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Quartzarenite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Neogene; Miocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Bolderberg Formation
- Rock name
- Quartzarenitic sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- coarse grained quartzarenitic sandstone
- Additional information
- coarse-grained quartzarenite with fossil imprints and moulds of mollusks
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- Natural color
- pale grey
- Aged color
- brownish grey
- Components
- quartz; moulds and imprints of fossil shells (bivalves); mouldic porosity
- Texture
- coarse-grained, locally microconglomeratic (granule)
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- moulds and prints of fossil shells (bivalves)
- Additional information
- sample RD57
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH3.L2.A3
- Original inventory nr.
- A0096
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
-
dominantly quartz (both mono- and polycrystalline); lithic fragments: flint, quartzite and silicified chalk – bioclastic mudstone; cement: 2 to 3 generations of silica cement: 1. Quartz overgrowths with nice dust lines; 2. Microquartz; 3. Megaquartz; silicified shell fragments (up to 8 mm in length); locally dissolved shells (mouldic porosity); small relicts of calcitic bioclasts (shells?) still left; moulds are locally lined with goethite (limonite)
- Texture
- sand: bad sorting; rounded grains; very coarse (40 tot 1200 microns; average 600 microns); lithic fragments up to 3mm; silicified shell fragments: up to 8 mm in length
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0009
- 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: 2024-04-24.