Glauconite Sand, offshore Chile
Pictures of sampling site and depositional facies
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Box corer in use | Macro |
Location |
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200 km offshore Concepcion, south central Chile, outer shelf, ca. 160 m water depth | |
Depositional facies |
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Outer shelf, ca. 160 km water depth | |
Provenance |
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Glauconitic fecal pellets (peloids) | |
Composition |
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Mainly glauconite, some phosphate | |
Texture | Well sorted, well rounded coarse-grained pellets. This is not really a natural sand because the grains were concentrated by washing and sieving from a muddy box corer sample |
Petrographic thin section:
Description | Glauconitic fecal pellets with a |
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Bright field | Dark field |
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Texture:
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Sample number | heubeck0025 | ||
Collector | Date of sampling | heubeck0025 | Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
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Date of sampling | dec Dec. 2001 |
Comments:
This is not really a natural sand because the grains were concentrated by washing and sieving from a muddy box corer sample