Limestone (BE.24.0015)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bajocian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Longwy Formation
- Rock name
- Grandcourt limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Bajocian limestone; Pierre Gaumaise; Limestone de Longwy; Pierre de Ruette
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Belgium; Luxemburg; Virton
- Region
- Gaume
- Site name
- Carrière de Grandcourt (Carrière 'La Pierre Gaumaise')
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- yellow
- Aged color
- orange yellow
- Components
- bioclastic and oolitic limestone (very high content of shell remains), rich in ironoxide
- Texture
- secondary porosity due to the dissolution of ooliths
- Structure
- quite homogeneous structure
- Weathering
- yellow orange patina
- Diagnostic features
- yellow orange patina, dissolution of ooliths
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A13
- Original inventory nr.
- A0153
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in ooids/peloids and bioclasts (e.g. crinoids, shell fragments); substantial amount of detrital quartz fragments; coarse sparite cement; secondary porosity due to dissolution of ooids/peloids
- Texture
- medium grain size
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- biosparite with subordinate detrital fraction; dissolution of ooids/peloids
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.24.0015
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Thomachot-Schneider et al. 2010
- Full reference
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Thomachot-Schneider C., Gommeaux M., Fronteau G., Oguchi C.T., Eyssautier & Kartheuser B. 2010. A comparison of the properties and salt weathering susceptibility of natural and reconstituted stones of Orval Abbey (Belgium). Environmental Earth Sciences 63, 1447-1461.
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Last modified: 2024-04-27.