Sample
Site
Name
:
Villars
Country
:
France
Latitude
:
45.442560
Longitude
:
0.785300
Altitude
:
174 meter(s)
Number of stations : 3
Number of sensors : 0
Number of samples : 35
Sampling site
Name : Balcon room
Collection method : Drilling (rotary)
Collection description : Active during sampling. It was cored by Yves Quinif and his son on the 15h of April 1998 in the large pillar that is in the Balcon room. We collected 2 cores of about 1.12 m that cover the last 180 ka. Another core was done in the Salle de la Colonne nearby. It was studied by my student Karine Wainer during her PhD at the LSCE laboratory.
Information
Sample characteristics
Material
:
Mineral
Classification
:
Sedimentary>Carbonate
Mineral :
Calcite
Sample Type
:
flowstone
Crystalline Fabrics
:
Columnar calcite (Railsback Atlas glossary) [SPEL+]
Number of fragments
:
1
Sample Description and others measurements : Flowstone core
Height : 114 cm
Sample petrography description : very variable color, detritals etc.
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