Sandstone (BE.22.0014)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Calcareous sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Lower Jurassic; Sinumerian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Luxemburg Sandstone Formation
- Rock name
- Fontenoille calcareous sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Fontenoille sandstone; Calcaire gréseux de Fontenoille; Luxembourg sandstone; Calcaire sableux du Sinémurien; Grés Sinémurien; grès ou calcaire sableux de Florenville et d'Orval
- Additional information
- This stone may be either classified as a calcareous sandstone or as a sandy limestone
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Belgium; Luxemburg; Florenville
- Region
- Gaume
- Site name
- Fontenoille, Carrière Quatre Arbres
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- yellowish grey (gold)
- Aged color
- Components
- oval pellets of micritic calcite; sporadically fossils
- Texture
- sandstone-like texture
- Structure
- homogeneous; compact
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- yellowish grey natural color, sandstone-like texture
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A14
- Original inventory nr.
- 36497
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- oval peloidal bioclasts; detrital fraction of quartz (~1/3), sporadically muscovite, plagioclase and opaque minerals; iron-rich microsparite cement
- Texture
- fine grained (equidimensional) angular detrital fraction;
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- peloidal grainstone; subordinate angular quartz
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0014
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Groessens 1990
- Full reference
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Groessens E. 1990. Calcaires et grès Mesozoïques exploités comme pierre de construction en Gaume (Belgique) et dans de le Gutland (Grand Duché de Luxembourg). Bulletin van de Belgische Vereniging voor Geologie 99, 2: 185-195.
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Last modified: 2024-04-23.