Sandstone (FR.22.0016)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Quartzarenite
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Eocene; Bartonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Beauchamp sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Beauchamp
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Aisne; Saint-Pierre-Aigle
- Site name
- Carrière de Saint-Pierre-Aigle
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- found at the base of the quarry
- Natural color
- yellowish white
- Aged color
- rusty orange
- Components
- quartz
- Texture
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B24
- Original inventory nr.
- A0147
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- quartz (mono- and polycrystalline); silica cement with overgrowth on detrital grains
- Texture
- fine to medium grain size; well sorted; quartzite texture
- Structure
- pressure-solution (concavo-convex contacts)
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fine to medium grained quartz arenite; quartzite texture
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.22.0016
- 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.