Sandstone (FR.22.0009)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Quartzarenite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Oligocene; Rupelian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Fontainebleau sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- groundwater silcrete
- Additional information
- Fontainebleau Sandstone Formation
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Essonne; Moigny-sur-École
- Site name
- Carrière "Les Grès de Fontainebleau et Cie"
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- white
- Aged color
- Components
- quartz; quartz cement; important intergranular porosity
- Texture
- saccharoidal; fine to medium-grained
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- white saccharoid quartz grains; porosity
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH3.L1.A22
- Original inventory nr.
- A0102
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rounded sand quartz grains with nice point and rib contacts; obvious quartz overgrowths with dust rims; dominantly monocrystalline quartz besides polycrystalline quartz (quartzite)
- Texture
- well-sorted; well-compacted; average grain size 200 microns; rounded quartz grains
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.22.0009
- 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: 2024-05-01.