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CN5

Material name: CN5
Synonyms: Silex Crétacé supérieur Nord - Sénonien (Campanien)
Material (geologic): Late Cretaceous (Senonian, Campanian) flint

Close-up of fine CN5 flint
Foto: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins, 2005.

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Material description

Mode of occurrence: Small fragments of irregular nodules.
Cortex: Worn, thin (1 mm) and slightly rough, highlighted by a recrystallization front; transition sharp.
Colour: Olive grey (5Y 4.4/1).
Pattern: Featureless, rare small white spots.
Appearance: Very homogeneous material with a greasy lustre, subtranslucent, smooth and fine-grained.
Structure: No particular structure.
Texture: Mudstone.
Matrix: Milky to translucent.
Grains: 2.5 %, pale, rounded with high sphericity, well sorted (100 and 400 µ).
Grain composition: Globose planktonic foraminifera (often surrounded by a halo of recrystallization), a biserial foraminifera (Heterohelicidae), rare sponge spicules; traces of iron oxides.
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Meillarenche
Locality: Leyssard / Solomiat - Meillarenche, France, Ain department
Synonyms: Sampling site Bugey 57 after Féblot-Augustins
Geographical description: The sample was collected along the small road which connects Solomiat with the main D 979 road, some 350 metres to the southwest of the village.
Geographical co-ordinates: east/x 842.37
north/y 2134
(Lambert zone II, NTF)

This corresponds with
Lat. 46° 10' 31" N
Long. 005° 28' 31" E
(WGS84)

Co-ordinate precision: The Lambert reference given was 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, so don't be deceived by the apparently high precision to the second.

The location can be found on the 1:25 000 topographical map sheet 3229 W of the French Institut Géographique National.

Geology: According to the geological map, the substrate belongs to unit Rs, which represents clays-with-flints, in this case presumably the residual of unit C6 (Late Cretaceous, Senonian) limestones.

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

Type of source: Secondary.
Other types of flint: Besides the CN5 material, flints of the CN2b and CN4c type (both of similar age) might be found here.
  Piece of mudstone-flint
Foto: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins, 2005
 
Flake of CN5-flint with cortex
Foto: Jehanne Féblot-Augustins, 2005
 

 

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