Sandstone (FR.22.0010)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Quartzarenite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Eocene; Ypresian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Fosses Belleu sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Grés de Belleu; grès de Fosses
- Additional information
- Age: Upper Ypresian (former Cuisian); outcrops of this rock are located in the centre of the Paris Basin, extending from the north-east of l’Île-de-France to the south of the Aisne river. More precisely, two localized outcrops gave the rock its denomination: the first area is located around Fosses, Bellefontaine and Luzarches (Department of Val d’Oise, France) and the second area around Belleu and Soissons (Department of Aisne, France); the rock derives from marine deposits affected by a fluviatile system during the Upper Ypresian. A lithification of Cuisian sands resulted in the formation of local discontinuous quarzitic sandstone beds. The degree of cementation can vary strongly (Lepareux-Couturier et al., 2017)
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- France; Val-d'Oise; Fosses
- Site name
- Fosses (undefined outcrop)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Eric Goemaere
- Additional contextual information
- Precise outcrop undefined
- Natural color
- grey to light-grey
- Aged color
- Components
- rare but diagnostic and easily recognizable millimetric grains of black flint and white feldspars
- Texture
- medium-grained
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- millimetric grains of black flint and white feldspars
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.22.0010
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Dr. Eric Goemaere (Geological Survey of Belgium)
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Lepareux-Couturier et al. 2017
- Full reference
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Lepareux-Couturier S., Boyer F., Fronteau G., D. G., Hamon C., Monchablon C., Picavet P. & Robin B. 2017. Les Productions de meules en grès de Fosses-Belleu. Typologie-Chronologie-Diffusion. In: Buchenschutz O., Lepareux-Couturier S. & Fronteau G. (Eds.). Les meules à grain du Néolithique à l’Époque Médiévale : technique, culture, diffusion, actes du colloque de Reims 15-17 mai 2014. Revue Archéologique de l'Est, Supplément 43: 213-232.
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Last modified: 2024-04-24.