Siliceous rock (BE.26.0002)
Find location
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Siliceous rock > Chert > Flint
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Upper Cretaceous; Maastrichtian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Silicified chalk
- Rock synonyms
- tauw (NL)
- Additional information
- related rock type: Maastricht Limestone.
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- Belgium; Limburg (BE); Tongeren
- Site name
- Tongeren (undefined field)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
- field find in the region of Tongeren (precise coordinates undefined); eluvium Jekerdal
- Natural color
- white
- Aged color
- orange brown (due to soiling from loam)
- Components
- silica; calcite; porous
- Texture
- Fine-grained
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- very porous and lightweight
- Additional information
- sample RD47
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH3.L2.A2
- Original inventory nr.
- A0100
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
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totally silicified bioclastic calcarenite with indistinct bioclasts (spiculae? Serpulids?); silica mainly microcrystalline quartz; finely disseminated opaque (pyrite?)
- Texture
- fine-grained
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- one micrograph with gypsum filer (purple colour) (picture A0100-1b)
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- BE.26.0002
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-04-26.