Limestone (FR.24.0006)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oncolithic/pisolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bajocian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Bayeux oolitic ironstone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
-
carbonate rock (limestone) + iron ore (ferruginous ore: goethite & chamosite).
From the type locality of the Bajocian Stage(Ste-Honorine-des-Perthes, Normandy)
Find location
- Site type
- Natural geological outcrop
- Location
- France; Calvados; Aure sur Mer
- Site name
- Plage de Saint-Honorine-des Pertes
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
- coastal find at the foot of a lime rock formation
- Natural color
- various: orange-yellow to greenish grey; dark-green components (ferruginous ooids)
- Aged color
- Components
- ferruginous ooids and oncoids; fossils; goethite and chamosite; intraclasts; calcitic matrix
- Texture
-
oolitic & oncolitic
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- ooids and oncoids are ferruginized; rock contains intraclasts and macrofossils
- Additional information
- sample RD16
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0006
- 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: 2024-04-30.