Limestone (FR.24.0011)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Upper Cretaceous
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Vernon limestone
- Rock synonyms
- pierre de Vernon; pierre de Vallée de Seine
- Additional information
- Age: Senonian (old terminology)=> comprising the Coniacian, Santonian, Campanian and Maastrichtian ages
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Eure; Vernon
- Region
- Normandie
- Site name
- Vernon (undefined quarry)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Sample provided by Monument Vandekerckhove nv; limestone actually quarried by "La Société des Carrières du Val de Seine". For more information see TERH Monuments Historiques (https://terh.fr/presentation/la-pierre-de-vernon/). Known quarries are: carrière Tsoushima and carrière Notre Dame.
- Natural color
- white
- Aged color
- Components
- grey bioclastic fragments (centimetric in size, mainly shell fragments); few silex nodules; iron-rich calcareous cement
- Texture
- fine grained
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- centimetric bioclasts and silex nodules; iron-rich calcareous cement
- Additional information
- pictures show dry and whet surfaces
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B1
- Original inventory nr.
- A0136
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- ooids (distinct concentric laminae), fragments of echinoderms and shells; microsparite cement; (de)dolomitization; microporosity
- Texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic/bioclastic grainstone; (de)dolomitization; microporosity
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0011
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Monument Vandekerckhove nv
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-04-27.