Limestone (FR.24.0014)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Upper Cretaceous; Turonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Thénac limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
- Particular facies from "Banc fine"
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Charente-Maritime; Thénac
- Site name
- Carrière des Mauds
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Thénac limestone is actually exploited by "Carrières de Thénac-Saintonge" (https://www.carrieresdethenac.com/)
- Natural color
- whitish beige
- Aged color
- Components
- ooids; occasionally patches of iron(hydr)oxides; macropores
- Texture
- fine grained
- Structure
- brownish orange streaks
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- macropores and brownish orange streaks are distinct for the 'Banc Fine' and are absent in 'Banc Romain'
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A25
- Original inventory nr.
- A0135
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- ooids/peloids, micritized Foraminifera, crinoids with syntaxial calcite overgrowth; very small detrital fraction (quartz); coarse sparite cement
- Texture
- fine grained (both allochems and detrital fraction)
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fine grained bioclastic grainstone
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0014
- 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: 2024-04-29.