Limestone (PT.24.0002)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Oolithic limestone
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Santarem limestone
- Rock synonyms
- Rosal (commercial name)
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Portugal; Leiria; Alcobaça
- Site name
- Vale da Moita
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- commercial sample obtained from Beltrami, precise quarry location is not defined
- Natural color
-
beige, light grey speckled
- Aged color
- Components
- observable ooids and to a lesser acount also shell fragments, small visible pores
- Texture
- fine grain size
- Structure
- compact
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.D2
- Original inventory nr.
- 33450/22
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- rich in peloids/ooids; subordinate fraction of shell fragments, crinoids and Foraminifera; coarse sparite cement
- Texture
- medium grained allochems
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- medium grained peloidal grainstone
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- PT.24.0002
- 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: 2024-04-26.