Sandstone (BE.22.0016)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Quartzarenite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Eocene; Lutetian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Zenne Group; Brussel Formation
- Rock name
- Brussel Formation silicified sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- grotsteen
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- Belgium; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest; Sint-Pieters-Woluwe
- Site name
- Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, Grootveldlaan
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. Dr. Tim De Kock
- Additional contextual information
- Sample originates from a bore hole (Inspect project, 2020)
- Natural color
- white-grey
- Aged color
- Components
- quartz; glauconite; silicified sandstone; low porosity
- Texture
- angular grains; quartzitic texture; conchoidal fracture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- silicified glauconite-rich sandstone; conchoidal fracture
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A7
- Original inventory nr.
- A0150
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- quartz (both mono- and polycrystalline), weathered feldspar, minor amounts of glauconite and micas; sporadically silica-replaced shell fragments; iron/clay-rich silica cement; low porosity
- Texture
- fine to medium grain size; sub-angular grains
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- well-cemented sandstone; silica-replaced shell fragments
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0016
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Inspect
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-04-28.