Limestone (TR.24.0001)
- Rock determination
- Sedimentary rock > Biochemical > Carbonate rock > Limestone > Bioclastic limestone (rich in brachiopods)
- Chronostratigraphy
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- limestone of Myra
- Rock synonyms
- Antalya Cream (commercial name)
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Stone workshop (related to outcrop/quarry)
- Location
- Turkey; Antalya; Dirgenler
- Site name
- Metamar Mermer
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Additional contextual information
- Commercial Beltrami sample, precise quarry location is not defined
- Natural color
- light beige, white
- Aged color
- Components
- dispersed greyish bioclasts
- Texture
- fine pores and some unfilled fractures
- Structure
- homogeneous
- Weathering
- susceptible to moisture
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- GEOL1.L1.D7
- Original inventory nr.
- 33447/19
- Collection
- Geological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
- mainly crinoids and shell fragments of brachiopods; small amounts of dolomite and iron(hydr)oxides; (micro)sparite cement
- Texture
- coarse allochems; irregular pores
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- coarse grained bioclastic grainstone; brachiopod shell fragments
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- TR.24.0001
- 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.