Limestone (FR.24.0039)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bajocian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Beaunotte limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Beaunotte; Boisvillon limestone ; Commercial names: Beauvillon Rubané, Boisvillon, Bois doré, Bomallon
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Côte d'Or; Beaunotte
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Site name
- Carrière de Beaunotte (undefined quarry)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Precise quarry location is not specified (commercial Beltrami sample)
- Natural color
- cream-colored, beige
- Aged color
- Components
- ooids; small black shell fossils; visible intergranular porosity (where the stone has a rusty orange color due to the presence of iron(hydr)oxides)
- Texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fossiliferous limestone; macroporosity
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C5
- Original inventory nr.
- 33449/21
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- different types of (micritized) bioclasts (mainly ooids, peloids, crinoids, shell fragments and corals) but also contains minor amounts of iron oxides in the pores of the sparite matrix
- Texture
-
fine to medium grain size, well sorted ooids/peloids but also millimetre sized fossil fragments
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- intrabioclastic grainstone
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0039
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Beltrami
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-04-30.