Limestone (FR.24.0007)
- 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 + ore (bioclastic limestone + iron ore).
From the type locality of the Bajocian (at Ste Honorine-des-Perthes)
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
- beige to orange yellow with small red)brown to orange-brown components
- Aged color
- Components
- ooids; oncoids; lithoclasts; fossils (marine macrofossils -> bivalves e.g. Pecten; also cephalopod shells); calcite; goethite; chamosite
- Texture
-
oolitic & oncolitic
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- ooids are ferruginized; rock contains marine fossils (bivalves, e.g. Pectinides; also cephalopod shells - ammonites)
- Additional information
- sample RD48
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0007
- 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.