Limestone (FR.24.0017)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Bioclastic limestone (crinoïdal rich)
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Upper Jurassic; Oxfordian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Euville limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Euville crinoidal
- Additional information
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- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Meuse; Euville
- Region
- Lorraine
- Site name
- Les carrières d'Euville
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- white
- Aged color
- yellowish beige
- Components
- fossils (crinoids), calcite
- Texture
- coarse grained
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- differential erosion with loss of matrix and crinoids sticking out, black crust
- Diagnostic features
- white to beige colour, coarse grained crinoids
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B7
- Original inventory nr.
- 33458
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- crinoids with syntaxial calcite overgrowths (microsparite cement); inter- and intragranular porosity (around 15%)
- Texture
- coarse grained crinoids
- Structure
- diagenesis of crinoids (calcite monocrystals)
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- coarse crinoidal grainstone
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0017
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Dreesen et al. 2012
- Full reference
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Dreesen R., Cnudde V., Dusar M., De Ceukelaire M., Bossiroy D., Groessens E., Elsen J., De Kock T. & Dewanckele J. 2012. In het voetspoor van Camerman: de opmars van de Franse steen in Belgie. In: Van Hees R., De Clercq H. & Quist W. (Eds.) Stenen van binnen, stenen van buiten: natuursteen in de jonge bouwkunst. 33–63. Presented at the 4de Vlaams-Nederlandse Natuursteendag, Delft, Nederland: Delfftdigitalpress.
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