Limestone (FR.24.0020)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Upper Cretaceous; Turonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Crazannes limestone
- Rock synonyms
- pierre calcaire de Crazannes; pierre de Rochefort, Anthéor, Angelès
- Additional information
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- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Charente-Maritime; Port-d'Envaux
- Site name
- Carrière des Chabossières
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- above chert bed (can possibly be linked with variant "Anthéor")
- Natural color
- pale cream color to reddish yellow
- Aged color
- Components
- microfossils (e.g. crinoids); macroporous
- Texture
- fine-grained bioclasts
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- chalky limestone
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C3
- Original inventory nr.
- 36928
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Uncovered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- strongly micritzed bioclasts (e.g. Foraminifera, crinoids); low amount of detrital quartz, mica and iron(hydr)oxides; micritic to microsparitic cement; rhomboedric porosity (dedolomitization)
- Texture
- fine grained bioclasts
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fine grained packstone/wackestone; dedolomitization
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0020
- 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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