Limestone (FR.24.0048)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Micritic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Rose de Bourgogne
- Rock synonyms
- Pierre de Bourgogne
- Additional information
- basin "la Côte"
Find location
- Site type
- Stone workshop (related to outcrop/quarry)
- Location
- France; Côte d'Or; Nuits-Saint-Georges
- Region
- Bourgogne
- Site name
- Carrières de Nuits Saint Georges
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Precise quarry location is not specified
- Natural color
- salmon pink, cloudy texture
- Aged color
- Components
- heterogeneous distribution of macroscopic bioclasts, iron-rich calcareous matrix
- Texture
- fine grained
- Structure
- orange veining of iron(hydr)oxides along heterogeneities (e.g. shell fragments)
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- salmon pink (cloudy texture), orange veining
- Additional information
- pictures of dry and wet surface
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.B22
- Original inventory nr.
- A0145
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in peloids and partially micritized bioclasts (e.g. crinoids) and/or replaced by sparite and iron(hydr)oxides; very low detrital fraction (quartz); micrite matrix
- Texture
- fine grain size
- Structure
- very fine calcite veins
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fine grained peloidal wackestone; iron(hydr)oxides; very fine calcite veins
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- FR.24.0048
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-05-02.