Limestone (FR.24.0040)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Cretaceous; Lower Cretaceous; Barremian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Urgonian Limestone Formation
- Rock name
- Lens limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Lens
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Gard; Moulézon
- Site name
- Carrière du Bois de Lens
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Commercial Beltrami sample, precise quarry location is not defined
- Natural color
- light beige
- Aged color
- Components
- oolithic limestone, small dark fossil inclusions, visible oolithic moldic porosity
- Texture
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic limestone, moldic porosity
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C7
- Original inventory nr.
- 33441/13
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in peloids and strongly micritized aggregate grains; sparite cement
- Texture
- medium grained allochems
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- medium grained peloidal grainstone
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0040
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Beltrami
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Bessac 2002
- Full reference
-
Bessac J.C. 2002. Les carrières du Bois des Lens (Gard). Gallia 59: 29-51.
- Link
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Last modified: 2024-04-26.