Org3-fsp1

License : Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND

Site

Name : Orgnac 3

Country : France
Latitude : 44.307500
Longitude : 4.297040
Altitude : 162 meter(s)

Number of stations : unknown
Number of sensors : unknown
Number of samples : 1

Sampling site

Name : Australia boulder
Collect method : Unknown
Collect description : Collected in the 1960's by Jean Combier during the excavation campains at Orgnac 3. Given to Ségolène Vandevelde for study in 2015.

Information

Sample characteristics

Material : Rock
Classification : Not defined
Mineral : Calcite
Sample Type : Not defined
Crystalline Fabrics : Microcrystalline (Railsback Atlas glossary) [SPEL+]
Number of fragments : 1

Sample Description and others measurements : Speleothem with microcrystalline fabric and budding structure (resembling stromatolite-like tufa), recording several balck laminae characterized as soot and micro-charcoals deposits. It has been cut in 6 slices for study.
Height : 13 cm
Sample petrography description : unknown

Dating

Climatic stratigraphy : MIS 8
Dating Method : MC-ICP-MS Multi-Collector [Pangaea10047]
Begin age : 271950±5180a. BCE
End age : 258800±10840a. BCE

Mission

Mission Leader : Vandevelde Ségolène
UMR 7041 ArScAn Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité
All mission Members : Vandevelde Ségolène,

Project

Scientific purpose : unknown
Scientific Program : unknown
Principals investigators :
Vandevelde Ségolène

Original archive place : UMR 7041 ArScAn Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité

International Geo Sample Number (IGSN) : changeme

SPELEOTHEM

SAMPLE