Limestone (FR.24.0023)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Bioclastic limestone (crinoïdal rich)
- Chronostratigraphy
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Lérouville limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
- similar to Euville limestone and Senonville limestone (Lorraine region)
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Meuse; Lérouville
- Region
- Lorraine
- Site name
- Carrière Moulin à vent
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- other known quarries: Carrière de la Mésangère (see: https://www4.ac-nancy-metz.fr/base-geol/fiche.php?dossier=098&p=3descrip)
- Natural color
- grey to white, slightly pinkish
- Aged color
- Components
- crinoids and sea urchins; calcareous cement; macropores
- Texture
- coarse grained
- Structure
- Weathering
- differential weathering of matrix with bioclasts sticking out; very sensitive to black crust formation (gypsum)
- Diagnostic features
- crinoids and sea urchins, coarse grained
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B3
- Original inventory nr.
- A0137
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- bioclasts (crinoids, rolled fragments of calcareous sponges, Foraminifera, shell fragments); dogtooth sparite cement; intergranular and moldic porosity
- Texture
- coarse allochems
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- coarse grained crinoidal grainstone
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy; highest porosity of local variants
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0023
- 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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