Limestone (FR.24.0046)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bathonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Corton Rose
- Rock synonyms
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- France; Côte d'Or; Ladoix-Serrigny
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Site name
- Ladoix-Corton Quarry
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Precise quarry location is not specified (commercial Beltrami sample)
- Natural color
- pinkish beige, more reddish zones interchanged with more cream coloured zones
- Aged color
- Components
- bioclastic limestone, millimetre to centimetre sized grey to white bioclasts, coarse grained sparite matrix
- Texture
- Structure
- bluish white veining, stylolite-bearing
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- pinkish color, veining
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C6
- Original inventory nr.
- 33437/9
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in peloids, ooids and intraclasts, minor amounts of shell fragments and Foraminifera; dog tooth sparite cement; iron(hydr)oxide coatings around grains
- Texture
- heterogeneous grain size distribution (differs largely from zone to zone)
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- grainstone with a variety of allochems; dog tooth sparite; iron(hydr)oxide coating around grains
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0046
- 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: 2024-05-06.