Sandstone (BE.22.0020)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Quartzarenite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Devonian; Lower Devonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Rock synonyms
- Taunus quartzite; quartzitic sandstone
- Additional information
- "Zutendaal gravel"; Age: "Siegenian" (corresponds with Pragian/Emsian)
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- Belgium; Limburg (BE); Dilsen-Stokkem
- Region
- Meuse valley
- Site name
- Veerpont Meeswijk-Berg a/d Maas
- Excavation or Survey Team
- dr. Roland Dreesen and dr. Sibrecht Reniere
- Additional contextual information
- Meuse gravel (eroded and transported rock)
- Natural color
- bicolour: purplered to brown
- Aged color
- Components
- quartz, quartz cement (?), no prorosity
- Texture
- fine grained; well sorted
- Structure
- presence of quartz veinz
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- presence of two colours: purplered and brown, diagnostic for "Taunus quartzite"
- Additional information
- sample MAAS-13
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.22.0020
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Bosch 1976
- Full reference
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Bosch, P.W., 1976. Gesteenten uit het Bontzandsteenconglomeraat van de Vogezen in de
Maasterrasafzettingen van Zuid-Limburg. Grondboor en Hamer, 30, 1: 2-10.
Bosch 1992
- Full reference
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Bosch, P.W., 1992. De herkomstgebieden van de Maasgesteenten, Grondboor en Hamer, 1992-3: 57-64
Dreesen 2007
- Full reference
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Dreesen, R. 2007. Zoekkaart keien voor het Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen, Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland.
- File
Van der Lijn 1958
- Full reference
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Van der Lijn, P., 1958. Het Keienboek. Thieme, Zutphen, 4de druk, 362 p.
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