Limestone (FR.24.0025)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bathonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Massangis limestone
- Rock synonyms
- pierre de Vaurion
- Additional information
- white variant (roche claire)
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Yonne; Massangis
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Site name
- Carrière Massangis (Rocamat)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- white grey
- Aged color
- Components
- large crinoid fragments and other bioclasts (often greyish), iron(hydr)oxides, porous
- Texture
- medium grain size
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- grainstone
- Additional information
- picture of dry and whet surface; for the yellow variant (Massangis roche jaune) see: FR.24.0026
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A20
- Original inventory nr.
- 33438
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- mixed ooids and bioclasts (crinoids, algae, forams and shell fragments); dolomitization; iron(hydr)oxides enveloping allochems; microsparite cement
- Texture
- medium grained allochems; moderately sorted
- Structure
- pressure-solution and compaction of ooids
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic/bioclastic grainstone; dolomitization
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.A21
- Original inventory nr.
- 33443
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- mixed ooids and bioclasts (crinoids, algae, forams and shell fragments); (de)dolomitization; iron(hydr)oxides enveloping allochems; microsparite cement
- Texture
- medium grained allochems; moderately sorted
- Structure
- pressure-solution and compaction of ooids
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic/bioclastic grainstone; (de)dolomitization
- Additional information
- variety roche jaune claire
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0025
- 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: 2024-04-29.