Sandstone (DE.22.0003)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Triassic; Upper Triassic
- Lithostratigraphy
- Keuper Formation
- Rock name
- Schlaitdorfer sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Germany; Nordrhein-Westfalen; Köln
- Site name
- Kölner Dom
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. Dr. Tim De Kock
- Additional contextual information
- Sample has been taken in the context of an Inspect restoration project
Provenance
- Location
- Germany; Baden-Württemberg; Schlaitdorf
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Steinberg
- Additional information
- Natural color
- yellowish white
- Aged color
- Components
- siliciclastic arenite, high degree of cementation
- Texture
- medium grain size
- Structure
- often sedimentary structures (parallel, angular and cross-bedded)
- Weathering
- black crust, granular disintegration
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C20
- Original inventory nr.
- A0155
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- quartz (mono- and polycrystalline), minor amounts of intensely weathered feldspar; coarse dolomite cement with at locations also silica cement; high intergranular porosity
- Texture
- coarse grain size, well sorted, subangular to rounded grains
- Structure
- strongly intergrown minerals, compaction (pressure-solution)
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- medium grained sandstone; coarse dolomite cement
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Sample type
- Building material
- Artefact information
- building stone Kölner Dom
- Inventory number
- DE.22.0003
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Inspect
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Loose Find
Graue et al. 2011
- Full reference
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Graue B., Siegesmund S. & Middendorf B. 2011. Quality assessment of replacement stones for the Cologne Cathedral: mineralogical and petrophysical requirements. Environmental Earth Sciences 63: 1799-1822.
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Last modified: 2024-04-28.