Limestone (FR.24.0001)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Bioclastic limestone (coquina/lumachelles rich)
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Upper Jurassic; Kimmeridgian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Calcaires du Moulin Wibert Formation
- Rock name
- Boulonnais limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
- Age: lower Kimmeridgian
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- France; Pas-de-Calais; Audinghen
- Region
- Boulonnais
- Site name
- Cran Poulet
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. R. Dreesen and Prof. W. De Clercq
- Additional contextual information
- This sample was collected at the foot of the coastal cliffs
- Natural color
- blueish grey
- Aged color
- light grey
- Components
- rich in large macrofossils: mollusks and cephalopods: Trigonia, Pinna, ammonites, etc.; calcareous and clayey (marl)
- Texture
- fine
- Structure
- Weathering
- light-grey
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- NFR B2
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH3.L1.A7
- Original inventory nr.
- 40618
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- lime mud matrix with numerous mollusc shells (fibrous, partially and fully recrystallized, calcite mosaic). Detrital angular quartz grains (dominantly quartz).
- Texture
- floatstone; Grain size of detrital quartz: 60 microns
- Structure
- bioturbated
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- silty coquina
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- Yes
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-04-25.