Limestone (FR.24.0042)
- 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
- yellow variant
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
- beige yellow
- Aged color
- Components
- ooids; presence of ironoxides; intergranular porosity (visible using hand lens)
- Texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- yellow color (due to presence of ironoxides)
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C4
- Original inventory nr.
- 33459/31
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- mainly peloids/ooids, crinoids, shell fragments and corals; sparite cement; minor amounts of iron(hydr)oxides coating grains; high intergranular porosity
- Texture
- fine to medium allochems (but also millimetre sized fossil fragments), well sorted
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- peloidal grainstone; coating of iron(hydr)oxides around grains
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0042
- 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: 2024-04-29.