GRD00R1S0

110-C173

Oolitic Limestone

Paleozoic › Carboniferous › Pennsylvanian
299.0 - 318.0

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Ritter 154

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No hand sample. Thin section in Thin Section Only box in RH 154. Original label: Middle Magdalena oolitic limestone, Coll. No. 101d, February 1951.

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New Mexico
Cloudcroft Road, Stop 1, GSA tour. 3.8 miles from Highway U.S. 54
Latitude: 32.95°
Longitude: -105.84°

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Skeletal fragments. General texture of the sample.

5.0

plane

Skeletal fragments. General texture of the sample.

5.0

crossed

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scan

crossed

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scan

plane

GRD00R1T0: Rounded bioclastics and micrite grains in a sparite matrix. Interiors of many grains are sparitized. A couple ooids are present. Bioclastics: Algla plates, shell fragments, echinoderm fragments, others. Some are micrite coated. (J. Gee)

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