Limestone (PT.24.0001)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Middle Jurassic; Bathonian
- Lithostratigraphy
- Pé da Pedreira Member
- Rock name
- Estremenho limestone (Moca)
- Rock synonyms
- Pé da Pedreira Member limestone; Portugese ornamental limestone; Moca Creme (commercial name)
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Portugal; Santarém; Alcanede
- Region
- Maciço Calcário Estremenho
- Site name
- Pé da Pedreira
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- commercial sample obtained from Beltrami, precise quarry location is not defined
- Natural color
- beige
- Aged color
- Components
- intraclasts (ooids, bryozoa, crinoids, foraminifera, shell fragments and pelloids); sparite cement
- Texture
- Structure
- layered structure (alternation of grain size)
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic limestone, layered structure
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.C25
- Original inventory nr.
- 33456/28
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- ooids/peloids and strongly micritized intraclasts (includes Bryozoa, crinoids, Foraminifera, shell fragments); sporadically opaque minerals; coarse sparite cement
- Texture
- medium grained allochems; sub-rounded intraclasts
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- oolithic/intraclastic grainstone; coarse sparite cement
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- PT.24.0001
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Beltrami
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
Carvalho & Lisboa 2018
- Full reference
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Carvalho J.M.F. & Lisboa J.V. 2018. Ornamental stone potential areas for land use planning: a case study in a limestone massif from Portugal. Environmental Earth Sciences 77, 206
- Link
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Last modified: 2024-05-04.