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Record 1 2010-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A limestone containing less than 25% each of intraclasts and ooliths, having a volume ratio of pellets to fossils greater than 3 to 1, and with the micrite matrix more abundant than the sparry-calcite cement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Calcaire à pellets unis par un ciment finement cristallin.

OBS

La famille des roches [allochimiques] peut [...] se diviser en deux groupes d'après la nature du ciment. Nous aurons ainsi : I À ciment de calcite spathique : 1) avec [intraclastes] : Intraparite [...] 2) avec oolithes [...] : Oosparite [...] 3) avec fossiles [...] : Biosparite [...] 4) avec «pellets» [...] : Pelsparite [...] II Avec matrice de calcite microcristalline : 1) avec [intraclastes] : Intramicrite [...] 2) avec oolithes : Oomicrite [...] 3) avec fossiles : Biomicrite [...] 4) avec «pellets» : Pelmicrite [...]

Spanish

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