Limestone (FR.24.0016)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Upper Jurassic; Tithonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Saint-Joire limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Barrois limestone; Morley stone (variety)
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Meuse; Saint-Joire
- Region
- Lorraine
- Site name
- Carrière de Sablanmont
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- rock sample from old quarry site in the vicinity of Saint-Joire (precise location undefined)
- Natural color
- yellowish grey to brownish beige
- Aged color
- light grey
- Components
- bioclasts (pseudo-ooids); macroporous
- Texture
- medium to coarse grained
- Structure
- layered aspect due to orientation of bioclasts
- Weathering
- differential erosion (loss of matrix)
- Diagnostic features
- rich in bioclasts, macroporous
- Additional information
- similar to Reffroy
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B4
- Original inventory nr.
- 34848
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- elongated micritized bioclasts (e.g. shell fragments, crinoids, Foraminifera, oncoids), intraclasts, pseudo-ooids; micrite matrix; pores stained with iron(hydr)oxides
- Texture
- coarse allochems
- Structure
- alignment of shell fragments
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- coarse bioclastic wackestone; alignement of shell fragments
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0016
- 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: 2024-04-30.