Limestone (FR.24.0030)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Bioclastic limestone (crinoïdal rich)
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bajocian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Buxy limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Buxy
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Saône-et-Loire; Buxy
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Site name
- Carrière de Buxy (undefined quarry)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Precise quarry location is not efined
- Natural color
- grey to beige (very variable), speckled appearance (due to white bioclasts)
- Aged color
- Components
- white distinct crinoidal fragments; calcareous matrix enriched in iron(hydr)oxides
- Texture
- Structure
- compact
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- iron-rich crinoidal limestone
- Additional information
- pictures show whet and dry surfaces
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B23
- Original inventory nr.
- 34842
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in crinoids, with syntaxial sparite overgrowth; centimetre sized shell fragments (partially phosphatized), Bryozoa
- Texture
- medium grained crinoids
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- crinoidal grainstone
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0030
- 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: 2024-04-23.