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CE3

Material name: CE3
Synonyms: Silex Crétacé supérieur Est - Sénonien (Campanien)
Material (geologic): Campanian (Late Cretaceous) flint from Miocene deposits.

Close-up of CE3 material
Foto: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins, 2005.

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Material description

Mode of occurrence: Small fragments of blocks.
Cortex: Worn, thin, grey-brown, transition sharp.
Colour: Pale brown to light yellowish brown (10YR 6/3.5).
Pattern: Slightly flecked (recrystallization haloes).
Appearance: Homogeneous material with a medium lustre, semi-opaque, moderately smooth, medium-grained.
Structure: Fluidal arrangement of grains.
Texture: Wackestone.
Matrix: Highly translucent.
Grains: 15 %, pale, subangular with high (160 µ) to low sphericity (sponge spicules, 5-700 µ).
Grain composition: Numerous small globose foraminifera, very numerous monaxon and triaxon sponge spicules, often surrounded by recrystallization haloes; frequent iron oxides.
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Villes-En Lachat
Locality: Villes / En Lachat, France, Ain department
Synonyms: Sampling site Bugey 49 after Féblot-Augustins
Geographical description: The source is located in some fields, under a kilometre away in a northwesterly direction from the hamlet/village of Villes, some eight kilometres SW of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine.
Geographical co-ordinates: east/x 866,3
north/y 2127,5
(Lambert zone II, NTF)

This corresponds roughly with
Lat. 46° 05' 43" N
Long. 005° 46' 53" E
(WGS84)

Co-ordinate precision: The coordinates given were taken from a large-scale map, and are within approx. 50 metres of the actual spot.
The latitude/longitude coordinates are a direct transformation of these data on WGS84 and are accurate to the same level; the 1-second precision is given to prevent any rounding-errors.

The location can be found on the 1:25 000 topographical map sheet 3329 W of the French Institut Géographique National.

Geology: According to the geological map, the substrate belongs to the Early to Middle Miocene (without distinction between Burdigalian and Helvetian), unit m1b-2a.

Map of all sampled localities of Late Cretaceous flint in the Bugey (PDF, 54 KB, opens in new window).

Type of source: Secondary. Redeposited Campanian flint from Miocene sediments.
Other types of flint: The flint here constitutes quite a mixed lot, with predominantly Late Cretaceous material like CE1a, CE1b, CE1c, CE2, CE4a, CE4b, and CE5, but also Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous) material of the Ht3-type.
  Weathered piece of CE3 flint
Foto: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins, 2005
 
 

 

Last modified on:
November 15, 2005
Contents primarily by:
Jehanne Féblot-Augustins
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