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CARGNEULE [1 record]

Record 1 2001-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geochemistry
DEF

A French term for a porous or cavernous carbonate sedimentary rock (especially a cellular dolomite), its cavities filled with soft, friable, evaporitic material that easily dissolves or falls out, leaving a rough, corroded surface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géochimie
DEF

Roche sédimentaire carbonatée, d'aspect carié et vacuolaire, souvent bréchique, de teinte jaune, brune, rouille, formant des masses peu ou pas stratifiées donnant des reliefs ruiniformes.

CONT

L'altération des dolomies, facilitée par les eaux séléniteuses ayant lessivé le gypse avoisinant, donne les cargneules, calcaires dolomitiques jaunâtres ou brûnatres, très vacuolaires [...]

CONT

La plupart des cargneules (dolomies caverneuses) font plus vivement effervescence à l'acide que les dolomies compactes.

OBS

[Les cargneules] sont surtout calcaire (70 % environ), un peu dolomitiques (20 % environ), parfois légèrement gypseuses.

OBS

On trouve aussi, mais rarement, les graphies «cargnieule» et «carniole».

Key term(s)
  • cargnieule
  • carniole

Spanish

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