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Fossil Plant In Diatomite

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Locality: 
Foufouilloux Quarry, Murat, Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Fossil
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18.7 × 16 × 4.3 cm
Weight: 
342.00gr
Description

Ivory white, laminated block of sedimentary diatomite with some surfaces trapping plant leaves, some very good exposed in this sample. They look like alnus sp. (Roiron, 2003), in a deposit of Upper Miocene age (5.34 +- 0.3 Ma). Very uncommon material in collections from the Foufouilloux diatomite quarry, now closed and rehabilitated since 2014. Collected in 26/8/2004 by Mr. Gustaf, specimen #467.F.335 of his rocks collection, with his handwritten label.

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Roiron, Paul (2003): Miocene macroflora of Murat (France). PANGAEA.   

 

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plant

Variety Of: 

Organic

Diatomite

Variety Of: 

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

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