Limestone (FR.24.0033)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Bioclastic limestone (rich in peloids)
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bathonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Anstrude limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Bierry roche jaune
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Yonne; Bierry-les-Belles-Fontaines
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Site name
- La Grande Perrière
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- white to yellowish beige
- Aged color
- Components
- contains brown colored fossils (ooids, shell fragments and pelloids)
- Texture
- Structure
- compact
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- peloidal grainstone
- Additional information
- different variants (roche jaune, roche claire, jaune claire and anstrude blanc)
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B11
- Original inventory nr.
- 34850
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- micritized bioclasts (mainly peloids, but also ooids, intraclasts and aggregate grains); sporadically shell fragments, Foraminifera and irono(hydr)oxides; sparite cement
- Texture
- medium grained allochems, poorly sorted
- Structure
- grain-to-grain pressure solution
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- medium grained peloidal/oolithic grainstone; rich in aggregate grains and intraclasts
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0033
- 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: 2024-05-01.