Litharenitic Sand, Jura Creek, Rocky Mountains
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Jura Creek |
| gray Grey, subrounded carbonates |
Location |
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Jura Creek E of Canmore, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada |
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Provenance:
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Depositional facies | replace this with text about the dep facies |
Provenance | 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, limestone, shale, some chert, few phosphorite grains | |
Texture | Coarse sand, very poorly sorted to poorly sorted, angular to subangular |
Petrographic thin section:
| Variable fine to coarse, sparry, |
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Bright field | Dark field |
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Texture:
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Sample number | Collector | Date of sampling | heubeck0060 |
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Collector heubeck0060 | Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin | ||
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)
