Limestone (FR.24.0035)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Callovian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Migné limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Migne
- Additional information
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- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Vienne; Migné-Auxances
- Site name
- Carrière des Lourdines
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- light beige
- Aged color
- Components
- ooids/peloids, crinoids
- Texture
- fine grained ooids/peloids; coarse grained crinoids (1 mm in size)
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- peloidal grainstone; coarse grained crinoids
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B18
- Original inventory nr.
- A0141
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- mainly ooids/peloids and micritized bioclasts (e.g. Foraminifera), sporadically crinoids; micritic to microsparitic cement
- Texture
- fine grained microfossils; coarse crinoid fragments
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic/peloidal packstone
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0035
- 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: 2024-04-26.