Litharenitic Sand, Jura Creek, Rocky Mountains
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Jura Creek |
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Location |
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Jura Creek E of Canmore, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada | |
Depositional facies | replace this with text about the dep facies |
Provenance |
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Geographically narrow provenance in drainage area of Jura Creek, exclusively from devonian limestones and dolomites of the Front Range | |
Composition |
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Dolomite, |
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limestone, shale, some chert, few phosphorite grains | |
Texture | Coarse sand, very poorly sorted to poorly sorted, angular to subangular |
Petrographic thin section:
Description | Variable fine to coarse, sparry, |
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recrystallised dolomite, few foliated shales, some chert and rare brown phosphorite grains | | Variable fine to coarse, sparry, |
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Texture:
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Bright field | Dark field |
Sample number | heubeck0060 | ||
Collector | Date of sampling | heubeck0060 | Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
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Date of sampling | August 2005 |
Comments:
Jura Creek is a popular hiking trail east of Canmore and leads to an outcrop of late devonian anoxic shales (Exshaw Shale)
Additional data pageFurther comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.
