Material name: | CE3 |
Synonyms: | Silex Crétacé supérieur Est - Sénonien (Campanien) |
Material (geologic): | Campanian (Late Cretaceous) flint from Miocene deposits. |
Foto: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins, 2005. |
Sampled sites:
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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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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 |
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. |
Foto: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins, 2005 |
Last modified on: November 15, 2005 |
Contents primarily by: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins |
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