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Record 1 2011-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A limestone consisting of less than 25 percent intraclasts, less than 25 percent ooliths, with volume ratio of fossils and fossil fragments to pellets more than 3 to 1 and calcite cement exceeding microcrystalline calcite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Roche calcaire contenant moins de 25 % de oolithes et possédant un rapport volumique des fossiles et fragments de fossiles sur celui des boulettes supérieur à 3 : 1.

OBS

La calcite est plus abondante dans le ciment que sous forme microcristalline.

Spanish

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