Limestone (FR.24.0027)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bathonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Oolithe Blanche Formation
- Rock name
- Chamesson limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Burgundy stone; pierre de Bourgogne
- Additional information
- Châtillonnais basin
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Côte d'Or; Chamesson
- Site name
- Carrière de Chamesson (undefined quarry)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Precise quarry location is not defined
- Natural color
- whitish beige
- Aged color
- Components
- oolithic limestone, iron-rich matrix, high macroscopic intergranular porosity
- Texture
- Structure
- light brown striations of iron(hydr)oxides
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic limestone, brown striations
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B19
- Original inventory nr.
- A0142
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- ooids/peloids, intraclasts and bioclasts (e.g. crinoids and shell fragments); iron(hydr)oxides; coarse sparite cement with syntaxial overgrowth on crinoids
- Texture
- medium grained bioclasts, moderately sorted
- Structure
- grain-to-grain pressure solution
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- medium grained peloidal/oolithic grainstone; iron(hydr)oxides; grain-to-grain pressure solution
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0027
- 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: 2024-05-03.