Layer
Name
Pigment La Rousse - polished slice
Physical characteristics
Type of layer
compact
Thickness
7.0  $\pm$ 0.2  $mm$
Texture
compact fine grained
Type of porosity
porous
Formation mode
polishing of both faces of a raw piece
Comments
embedded in resin before polishing
Number
6
Arrangement
spatial distribution
Materials
  Name Arrangement Mass (g) Mass fraction Abundance comments
Calcite with hematite limestone with mixed hematite on one side of the plot with horizontal gradient towards limestone with mixed goethite on the other side impurity abundances not determined
Calcite with goethite limestone with mixed goethite on one side of the plot with horizontal gradient towards limestone with mixed hematite on the other side impurity abundances not determined
Glauconite locally mixed with limestone
Quartz locally present in limestone
Baryte locally mixed with limestone
Zircon locally mixed with limestone