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IGSN Sample Type Notes Location Number Thin Sections Storage Location
GRD02MCS0 Pelletal Limestone Very small sample of grey pelletal limestone. Small pellets and bivalve fragments. Billet. Original label: Oolite from photo 3-19 (cross-bedded oolite in Lias lagoonal facies). ~2 meters above, in another bed. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 2 Camp Elliott
GRD02MDS0 Oolitic Limestone Decent-sized sample of tan oolitic limestone. Small ooids, a few pisolites, and a minor amount of bivalve fragments. Patches of crystalline calcite. Billet. Original label: Immediately beneath cross-beeded (1-5 meters) oolite of photo 3-19 (Samples W81-46, W81-47). Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 2 Ritter 154, 21 B
GRD02MES0 Boundstone Small cuttings of grey algal limestone. Billet. Original label: 40 cm below cross-bedded oolite. Wackestone with algal coatings. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 2 Camp Elliott
GRD02MFS0 Oolitic Limestone Cream-colored oolite with small ooids. Billet. Thin section is nice, but the hand sample is mediocre. Original label: Topmost part of cross-bedded oolite. Note excellent sorting and texture. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02MGS0 Oolitic Limestone Cream-colored oolite with small ooids and lighter crinoid fragments (~5% of rock). Billet. Very similar to W81-52, which has a nicer hand sample and thin section. Original label: Topmost Lias platform (crinoidal oolite) under Lower Ammonitico Rosso. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02MHS0 Oolitic Limestone Large crinoid stem pieces in fine-grained tan oolite. Billet. Original label: Crinoid limestone in San Vigilio oolite. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Ritter 154, 8 A
GRD02MIS0 Pelletal Limestone Fine-grained tan pelletal limestone with yellow ferrous hydroxide veins. Part of the San Vigilio oolite. Billet. Original label: Giallo di Mori, ~2 meters below ~10 meters [thick] oolite. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02MJS0 Oolitic Limestone Medium to small grained oolite. Billet. Original label: Oolite above Giallo di Mori. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Ritter 154, 21 B
GRD02MKS0 Grainstone Red encrinal limestone. Small sample. Billet. Original label: Red encrinite, ~10 meters above oolite. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02MMS0 Oolitic Limestone Dark grey and yellow oolite. Dark grey ooids in a layer in the center of the sample. Decent-sized hand sample. Billet. Original label: Silicified oolite layer in San Vigilio oolite formation. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02MNS0 Oolitic Limestone Tan oolite with lighter crinoid fragments, dark interstitial spots, and thin sparry calcite veins. Decent-sized hand sample. Billet. Original label: Typical San Vigilio oolite with abundant crinoid fabric. Sept. 3, 1981. Italy 1 Camp Elliott
GRD02MQS0 Micritic Limestone Grey micrite lense in finely-bedded granular limestone. Small hand sample. Not cut. Original label: Basal part of graded bed. Look for platform debris, Posidonia. Is this younger than Toarcian? Has reddish, nodular limestone near base of secton. No posideonia seen. Looks more or less Domaro. Stop 4/2. Sept. 4, 1981. Italy 0 Camp Elliott
GRD02MVS0 Oncoidal Limestone Chambliss Limestone Member, Cararra Formation. Large sample. Limey crust on one side of sample. Nice oncolite. California 0 Ritter 154, 21 M
GRD02MWS0 Oncoidal Limestone Chambliss Limestone Member, Cararra Formation. From the base of Chambliss limestone. Large sample. Beautiful oncolite. California 0 Ritter 154, 18 R
GRD02MWS1 Oncoidal Limestone Chambliss Limestone Member, Cararra Formation. From the base of Chambliss limestone. Large sample. Beautiful oncolite. California 0 Ritter 154, 21 M
GRD02PBS0 Chalk Chalk with thin wispy lenses and layers of opal. Billets. Original label: Transition and opal CT. Monterey Formation. California 2 Ritter 154, 18 L
GRD02SKS0 Shell Limestone Fossiliferous micrite, with bivalves and miliolids Mexico 0 Ritter 154, 18 E
GRD02SQS0 Packstone Nevada 0 Ritter 154, 18 F
GRD02SRS0 Oolitic Limestone Layered Oolitic Limestone 0 Ritter 154, 18 B
GRD02STS0 Grainstone Lower Cadiz Shale Member of Cararra formation. Mid Cambrian. California 1 Ritter 154, 22 I
GRD02SUS0 Limestone Birds eye Limestone 0 Ritter 154, 18 D
GRD02SUS1 Limestone Birds eye Limestone 0 Ritter 154, 21 M
GRD02SUS2 Limestone Birds eye Limestone 0 Ritter 154, 21 M
GRD02SVS0 Limestone Deseret Formation. Upper Mississippian Utah 2 Camp Elliott
GRD02X8S0 Limestone Laytonville ls. Franciscan fm - Bob Nason field trip # 5 California 0 Camp Elliott
GRD02XPS0 Micritic Limestone Fossiliferous micrite with quartz filled vug Kansas 0 Ritter 154, 18 D
GRD03Z4S0 Pisolitic Limestone Chambless Limestone California 0 Ritter 154, 18 C
GRD03ZOS0 Limestone Muav Limestone Arizona 0 Ritter 154, 29 H
GRD03ZPS0 Limestone Muav Limestone Arizona 0 Ritter 154, 29 H
GRD03ZQS0 Limestone Redwall Limestone Arizona 0 Ritter 154, 29 H