GRD01G5S0
W83-6
Oolitic Limestone
Mesozoic › Jurassic › Late Jurassic › Oxfordian
156.0
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161.0
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Ritter 154 › Cabinet 21 › Drawer C
ooids
Oolite, Osmington fm. (Corallian). Ooids grown around grains of sand and bivalve fragments.
Samples W83-2 through W83-13, see Winterer 1982- 1983 notebook, pages 27 through 34.
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United Kingdom
Dorset, West Bay
Latitude: 50.74°
Longitude: -2.34°
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General texture of the sample
2.5
plane
General texture of the sample
2.5
crossed
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scan
crossed
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scan
plane
GRD01G5T0: Well-sorted oolite. Angular grains of quartz srve as the cores of roughly 30% of the ooids. 10% of the ooids have bivalve shell fragments in the core. The rest have no special cores. Sparry calcite matrix. Poor preservation of internal structure in the ooids. (C. Eichler)
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