Sandstone (DE.22.0002)

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Site type

Natural geological outcrop

Location

Germany; Nordrhein-Westfalen; Korschenbroich

Site name

Liedberg

Excavation or Survey Team

Dr. Dieter Hupka

Additional contextual information

Natural color

white to beige

Aged color

orange brown (due to soiling)

Components

quartz dominated; porous sandstone (cement consits of thin quartz overgrowths resulting in an important residual intergranular porosity)

Texture

moderately to well sorted; very hard (appearance of quartzite due to cementation)

Structure

Weathering

soiling, i.e. the development of tiny irons(hydration)oxide linings, produces a brownish appearance of the sandstone

Diagnostic features

quartz dominance, less cemented then the quartzitic Liedberg sandstone variant

Additional information

Sample type

Rock sample

Inventory number

DE.22.0002

Collection

Archaeological Department, Ghent University

Donating institute/person

Dr. Dieter Hupka

Host collection

Other samples available

No

Sample collection method

Field Sampling (clay/rock)

Hupka 2014

Full reference

Hupka D. 2014. Zur Verwendung des Liedberg-Quarzits und quarzitischen Sandsteins als Baumaterial in römischer und mittelalterlicher Zeit. Jahrbuch für den Kreis Neuss. Kreisheimatbund Neuss, 2014, Dormagen: 11-19.

Hupka 2015

Full reference

Hupka, Dieter, 2015. Die römischen Siedlungsfunde, gewerblichen Reste und Straßenbefunde in Mönchengladbach-Mülfort. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

Link

• http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/6310