Limestone (FR.24.0037)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Tercé limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Tercé; Pierre Tercé jaune
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Germany; Nordrhein-Westfalen; Köln
- Site name
- Kölner Dom
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Prof. Dr. Tim De Kock
- Additional contextual information
- Sample has been taken in the context of an Inspect restoration project
Provenance
- Location
- France; Vienne; Tercé
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- La carrière de Normandoux (Tercé)
- Additional information
- other potential quarries in Chauvigny, Jardres & Lavoux
- Natural color
- whitish beige
- Aged color
- Components
- ooids and debris of shells in a cement/matrix of fine grained calcite (closely packed)
- Texture
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- pale patina
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B15
- Original inventory nr.
- A0140
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- ooids and debris of bioclasts (shell fragments, crinoids); syntaxial (micro)sparite cement
- Texture
- (very) fine ooids
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- (very) fine grained oolithic grainstone
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Building material
- Artefact information
- building stone Kölner Dom
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0037
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Inspect
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Loose Find
Dreesen et al. 2012
- Full reference
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Dreesen R., Cnudde V., Dusar M., De Ceukelaire M., Bossiroy D., Groessens E., Elsen J., De Kock T. & Dewanckele J. 2012. In het voetspoor van Camerman: de opmars van de Franse steen in Belgie. In: Van Hees R., De Clercq H. & Quist W. (Eds.) Stenen van binnen, stenen van buiten: natuursteen in de jonge bouwkunst. 33–63. Presented at the 4de Vlaams-Nederlandse Natuursteendag, Delft, Nederland: Delfftdigitalpress.
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