Limestone (FR.24.0038)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bathonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Marquise-Rinxent Formation; Marquise Member
- Rock name
- Marquise limestone
- Rock synonyms
- pierre de Marquise; oolithe de Marquise
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; Henegouwen; Tournai
- Site name
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
Provenance
- Location
- France; Pas-de-Calais; Marquise
- Supposed site(s) of provenance
- Additional information
- Natural color
- pale yellow to dark yellow
- Aged color
- Components
- ooids; also contains brachiopods (Rhynchonella) and crinoids (Pentacrinus)
- Texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- pictures show dry and whet surfaces
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B14
- Original inventory nr.
- A0139
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- ooids (occasionally open and/or including detrital quartz grain) and heavily micritized rolled fragments; high intergranular porosity
- Texture
- medium grained ooids; fine detrital fraction
- Structure
- grain-to-grain pressure solution
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic grainstone; small detrital fraction; high intergranular porosity
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Sample type
- Building material
- Artefact information
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0038
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Debonne & Dreesen 2015
- Full reference
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Debonne V. & Dreesen R. 2015. Stenen immigranten in de Zwinstreek. Natuursteen in de Onze -Lieve-Vrouwhemelvaartkerk in Damme. Relicta 12: 149-180.
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Last modified: 2024-04-22.