Limestone (ES.24.0001)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Sandy limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Upper Cretaceous
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Bateig Llano
- Rock synonyms
- Piedra Novelda; Azul Castilla; Oasis Blue; Mirage Blue; Azul Oasis Bateig
- Additional information
- Blue Bateig or Azul Bateig variant (commercial names)
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Spain; Alicante; Elda
- Site name
- Bateig hill
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- ligth greyish blue
- Aged color
- Components
- recognisable shell fragments; contains a siliciclastic fraction (quartz, glauconite)
- Texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- arenaceous limestone
- Additional information
- picture of dry and wet surface
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C22
- Original inventory nr.
- 33854
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- bioclasts (forams, echinoderms, bivalves, Bryozoa, sponge spicula and rhodophytes); centimetre sized shell fragments, partially phosphatized; subordinate detrital fraction of quartz and glauconite; micritic to microsparite cement with local silicification
- Texture
- fine grained allochems/minerals, well sorted; sub-angular quartz
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fine grained bioclastic packstone; subordinate detrital fraction of quartz and glauconite
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- ES.24.0001
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-05-03.