Limestone (FR.24.0029)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Paleogene; Eocene; Lutetian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Noyant limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Noyant Fine; Pierre de l'Aisne
- Additional information
- Banc Fine, see FR.24.0028 for Noyant bank "franc"
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Aisne; Septmonts
- Site name
- Carrière de Noyant (Le Mont Blanc)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- cream-colored white
- Aged color
- Components
- microscopic bioclasts (crinoids sometimes observable); micritic matrix; intergranular porosity
- Texture
- fine grained
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- frost sensitive
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C1
- Original inventory nr.
- 33453/25
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in Foraminifera (in particular Miliolida are the most dominant), also Bivalvia and Echinoderma; detrital quartz (10%); both high intra- and intergranular meso- and microporosity; micrite matrix
- Texture
- fine to medium grained allochems; fine angular quartz grains
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- miliolidal packstone/wackestone; low detrital fraction
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0029
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Beltrami
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Dewanckele et al. 2013
- Full reference
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Dewanckele J., Boone M.A., De Kock T. , De Boever W., Brabant L. , Boone M.N., Fronteau G. ,Dils J. , Van Hoorebeke L., Jacobs P. & Cnudde V. 2013. Holistic approach of pre-existing flaws on the decay of two limestones. Science of The Total Environment 447, 1: 403-414.
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Last modified: 2024-04-24.