Sandstone (LU.22.0002)
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- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Siliciclastic > Sandstone > Calcareous sandstone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Lower Jurassic; Hettangian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Luxemburg Sandstone Formation
- Rock name
- Ernzen sandstone
- Rock synonyms
- Luxembourg stone; Larochette sandstone
- Additional information
- Age: Hettangian/Sinemurian
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Luxemburg; Mersch; Larochette
- Site name
- Ernzen, Carrières Feidt SA
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Natural color
- yellowish white to ochre colored
- Aged color
- ochre
- Components
- quartz; carbonate rich vs. carbonate poor parts; iron-rich calcite cement; rare fossil content
- Texture
- fine to medium grained
- Structure
- homogeneous; sedimentary structures can occur
- Weathering
- ochre patina (carbonate rich variants)
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C13
- Original inventory nr.
- A0158
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- mainly consists of quartz grains with subordinate bioclastic fragments (e.g. crinoids with syntaxial sparite overgrowth); iron-rich sparite cement (carbonate rich and carbonate poor parts); very high porosity
- Texture
- fine to medium grain size, well sorted, sub-rounded grains
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- quartz sandstone; heterogeneous sparite cement; high porosity
- Additional information
- blue stained epoxy
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C12
- Original inventory nr.
- 99-25
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- quartz with subordinate fraction of weathered feldspars and to a lesser account micas and iron(hydr)oxides; silica cement
- Texture
- fine grain size, moderately sorted; quartzite texture
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- fine grained quartz arenite; quartzitic texture
- Additional information
- Larochette; carbonate poor variety
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- LU.22.0002
- 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: 2024-04-27.