Layer
Name
Pigment Pierremorte - polished slice #1
Physical characteristics
Type of layer
compact
Thickness
7.0  $\pm$ 0.5  $mm$
Mass
13.48 $g$
Texture
compact fine grained
Type of porosity
without pores
Formation mode
polishing of one face of a raw piece
Comments
embedded in resin before polishing
Number
3
Arrangement
homogeneous mixing
Materials
  Name Arrangement Mass (g) Mass fraction Abundance comments
Ferruginized carbonated matrix Ferruginized carbonated matrix containing the ferruginized bioclasts and some quartz grains undetermined abundance
ferruginized bioclasts (hematite) ferruginized bioclasts (mainly bioclasts) (hematite) embedded in the ferruginized carbonated matrix
Quartz inclusions grains embeded in the ferruginized carbonated matrix, isolated 0.05 < 5%. Assumed mass fraction = cross section fraction