Limestone (FR.24.0015)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Sandy bioclastic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bathonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Formation du calcaire de Caen
- Rock name
- Caen limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Caen
- Additional information
- Bank A & B
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Calvados; Cintheaux
- Site name
- Cintheaux (undefined quarry)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Bank A & B
- Natural color
- cream-coloured to light yellow
- Aged color
- white
- Components
- grey bioclasts, spots of iron(hydr)oxides
- Texture
- fine grained; homogeneous
- Structure
- Weathering
- vulnerable to differential erosion and air pollution
- Diagnostic features
- cream-coloured, homogeneous, fine grained
- Additional information
- Picture of dry and whet surface
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B5
- Original inventory nr.
- 36660
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in peloids and bioclasts (crinoids, Foraminifera, thin calcitic shells); diffuse spread of opaque minerals; microsparite cement with syntaxial overgrowth of crinoid fragments
- Texture
- fine grained allochems
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fine grained peloidal grainstone
- Additional information
- bioclastic (crinoidal) and peloidal varieties
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0015
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Debonne & Dreesen 2015
- Full reference
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Debonne V. & Dreesen R. 2015. Stenen immigranten in de Zwinstreek. Natuursteen in de Onze -Lieve-Vrouwhemelvaartkerk in Damme. Relicta 12: 149-180.
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Last modified: 2024-04-26.