Limestone (BE.24.0001)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Microbial limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Paleozoic; Devonian; Upper Devonian; Famennian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Souverain-Pré Formation; Baelen Member
- Rock name
- Red marble of Baelen
- Rock synonyms
- red stone of Lymborch (Dusar et al. 2009); Marbre Rouge à Crinoïdes de Baelen
- Additional information
- Middle Famennian Age; mud mound core facies (with stromatactis)
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Belgium; Luik; Baelen
- Site name
- Carrière de Dolhain
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- pin, red, grey and white
- Aged color
- pinkish grey
- Components
- stromatactis, crionoids; calcite
- Texture
- banded (zebra-type stromatactis); fine-grained limestone matrix
- Structure
- zebra structures
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- presence of zebra-like stromatactis structures; absence of corals
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.24.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Dreesen et al. 2015
- Full reference
-
Dreesen R., Marion J.-M. & Mottequin B. 2015. Het Rode marmer van Baelen, een geologisch buitenbeentje. Grondboor & hamer 48, 4: 2-13.
- File
- Link
Dusar et al. 2009
- Full reference
-
Dusar M., Dreesen R. & De Naeyer A. 2009. Natuursteen in Vlaanderen, versteend verleden. Wolters Kluwer.
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Last modified: 2024-04-26.