Limestone (ES.24.0002)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Sandy limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Oligocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Floresta limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Pedra de Vinaixa
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Spain; Lérida; Els Omellons
- Site name
- Floresta quarry (undefined quarry)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- The outcropping stone occurs in the area between La Floresta and L'Espluga Calba.
- Natural color
- greyish beige
- Aged color
- Components
- small white fossil fragments imbedded in a brownish beige matrix, intergranular cement
- Texture
- fine grain size
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C24
- Original inventory nr.
- 33448/20
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- micritized and dolosparitic limestone fragments; small fraction of detrital quartz; (micro)sparite cement; low porosity
- Texture
- very fine to fine grained allochems/minerals, well sorted
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- (very) fine grained grainstone; micritic and dolosparitic limestone fragments; low detrital fraction
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- ES.24.0002
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Beltrami
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Alfonso et al. 2010
- Full reference
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Alfonso P., Parcerisa D., Mata-Perello J.M., Monterde E. & Daura J. 2010. Caracterización de la pedra de la floresta y su interés patrimonial. In Florido P. & Rábano I. (Ed.). Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, No. 12: 33-46.
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Last modified: 2024-04-24.