Sandstone (BE.22.0011)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Ferruginous sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Neogene; Miocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Diest Formation
- Rock name
- Diestian ferruginious sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- bergsteen; ferruginious sandstone
- Additional information
- Age: Tortonian/early Messinian
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- Belgium; Vlaams-Brabant; Diest
- Site name
- Vleugt, Kruisberg
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Ghent University research team
- Additional contextual information
- Sampled in the context of a bachelor internship L.K.
- Natural color
- rusty brown
- Aged color
- rusty brown
- Components
- sand (quartz, glauconite); cemented together by iron (hydroxide (limonite))
- Texture
- medium to coarse grain size
- Structure
- deposited as sandbars in tidal channels; early diagenesis
- Weathering
- rusty brown patina; goethite crust possible
- Diagnostic features
- striking color (rusty brown)
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A11
- Original inventory nr.
- A0152
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
-
quartz (mono- and polycrystalline) and glauconite (up to 50%, often altered to iron(hydr)oxides), cemented together by iron (hydr)oxides (limonite), intergranular porosity
- Texture
- fine to coarse grain size; poorly sorted; sub-angular quartz and rounded glauconite grains
- Structure
- mineral grains often fractured
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- ferruginous sandstone; fine to coarse grain size
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0011
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Houthuys 2014
- Full reference
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Houthuys R. 2014. A reinterpretation of the Neogene emersion of central Belgium based on the sedimentary environment of the Diest formation and the origin of the drainage pattern. Geologica Belgica 17, 3/4: 211-235.
- Link
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Last modified: 2024-04-27.