Carbonate Sand, Yucatan, Mexico
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Environment | Macro |
Location: | Isla Mujeres, Yucatan, Mexico |
Depositional facies: | broad, shallow, long, medium to low energy beach |
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Location:
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Depositional facies:
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broad, shallow, long, medium to low energy beach
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Provenance:
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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 |
Petrographic thin section:
| Dominated by "tiara" or |
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Bright field |
| Dark field |
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Medium grained, well sorted, well rounded
Sample number | heubeck0017 | ||
Collector | Date of sampling | heubeck0017 | unknown (gift) |
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Date of sampling | 1995? |
Comments:
Isla Mujeres is a huge island near Yucatan
