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Carbonate
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Sand,
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Yucatan,
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Mexico
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Environment | Macro |
Location: | Isla Mujeres, Yucatan, Mexico |
Depositional facies: | broad, shallow, long, medium to low energy beach |
Provenance: | local provenance from the water covered Yucatan platform east of Isla Mujeres. Biogenically grown carbonate is eroded periodically by hurricanes and transported to the beaches by currents |
Composition: | CaCO3 (calcite and aragonite) |
Texture: | Medium grained, well sorted, well rounded |
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Petrographic thin section:
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Description | Dominated by "tiara" or fingerprint similar red algae |
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Bright field | Dark field |
Sample number | heubeck0017 |
Collector | unknown (gift) |
Date of sampling | 1995? |
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Comments:
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Isla Mujeres is a huge island near Yucatan
