Limestone (FR.24.0024)
Find location
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Upper Jurassic; Tithonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- L'Oolithe Vacuolaire Formation
- Rock name
- Savonnières limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
- Age: Upper Tithonian
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Meuse; Savonnières-en-Perthois
- Region
- Lorraine
- Site name
- Carrière de Savonnières-en-Perthois
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- cream-colored white
- Aged color
- Components
- vacuolar ooids, occasionally some Bivalvia
- Texture
- Structure
- homogeneous; (cross-)bedding
- Weathering
- gypsum crust formation and black discolouration (not applicable for this sample)
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A17
- Original inventory nr.
- 34845
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- solid and hollow, concentric ooids; shell fragments, peloids and occasionally dolomite; dog tooth sparite cement; high porosity (>20%) with dominant intragranular porosity
- Texture
- medium grained ooids
- Structure
- ooid dissolution (diagenesism)
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- solid and hollow ooids; dog tooth sparite; high intragranular porosity
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0024
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Fronteau 2000
- Full reference
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Fronteau G. 2000. L’Oolithe vacuolaire:caractéristiques,mise en oeuvre et altération. Bulletin d'Informations des géologues du Bassin De Paris 37, 3: 34-39.
- Link
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Last modified: 2024-04-27.