Ooid Sand, Bahamas
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Foto is from Joulter's Shoal, Andros Island Unknown macro: {table-cell} |
Macro, ooids |
Location |
Bahamas |
Depositional facies |
Beach, shallow subtidal |
Provenance |
Local |
Composition |
Calcite, aragonite; additionally well rounded, elongate fragments of calcarous algae (Halimeda ?) and few bivalve fragments |
Texture |
Grains are very well rounded, well sorted, medium to coarse grained |
Petrographic thin section:
Description |
Radial ooids of aragonite needles, generally around a detritic core (quartz, calcarous fragment ecc.) |
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Bright field Unknown macro: {table-cell} |
Dark field |
Sample number |
heubeck0010, NA15 |
Collector |
unknown |
Date of sampling |
unknown, approx. 1995 |
Comments:
See Additional data page for REM images