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  <subtitle><![CDATA[Rocks, minerals and fossils collections for Part 1A students]]></subtitle>
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    <title><![CDATA[<h2><strong>L361<br /></strong></h2>
<h2>Oolitic ironstone</h2>]]></title>
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<h3>Hand Specimen</h3>
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<p>This rock is made up of light grey sub-spherical<span> </span><a href="/p1acollections/items/show/230">ooids</a>.<span> </span><br />Fine to medium sand grain size.<span> </span><br />A few lithic/biogenic fragments.<span> </span><br />Dark grey cement.<span> </span><br />Small hair-line white veins run through this rock.</p>
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<h3>Thin-section</h3>
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<p>Ooids made up of a greenish sheet silicate mineral called<span> </span><span>chamosite</span>, partially altered to<span> </span><span>siderite</span><span> </span>and<span> </span><span>limonite</span>. Concentric structure. Central cores of fine-grained material.</p>
<p>A layer formed of brown, transparent crystals, sometimes with rhombic cross-sections surrounds the peripheries of many ooids. This is<span> </span><span>siderite</span>.</p>
<p>Some quartz grains.</p>
<p>The cement is made up mainly of carbonate (<span>siderite</span>), with a small quantity of a green-brown material, which has anomalous interference colours.</p>
<p>This rock is a grainstone (Dunham naming system) or oo-sparite (Folk naming system).</p>
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<h3>Rock History</h3>
<div class="element-text">Deposited in a moderate energy, marine energy.</div>
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<h3>Advanced Notes</h3>
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<p><span>Chamosite</span><span> </span>is an Fe-rich chlorite, often greenish. It is a sheet silicate.</p>
<p><span>Limonite</span><span> </span>is amorphous or cryptocrystalline, and yellow-brown to brownish-black in colour. It comprises hydrated iron (III) oxides with a range of compositions.</p>
<p><span>Siderite</span><span> </span>is iron carbonate (FeCO<sub>3</sub>). It is often difficult to distinguish siderite from calcite and dolomite optically.</p>
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<h3>Rock Name</h3>
<div class="element-text">oolitic ironstone<br />oolite</div>
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                    <div class="element-text"><h2><strong>L361<br /></strong></h2>
<h2>Oolitic ironstone</h2></div>
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        <h3>Subject</h3>
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<p>Jurassic</p>
<h3>Location</h3>
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<p>Inferior oolite<br />Thrapston, Northamptonshire</p>
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        <h3>Description</h3>
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<h3>Hand Specimen</h3>
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<p>This rock is made up of light grey sub-spherical<span> </span><a href="/p1acollections/items/show/230">ooids</a>.<span> </span><br />Fine to medium sand grain size.<span> </span><br />A few lithic/biogenic fragments.<span> </span><br />Dark grey cement.<span> </span><br />Small hair-line white veins run through this rock.</p>
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<h3>Thin-section</h3>
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<p>Ooids made up of a greenish sheet silicate mineral called<span> </span><span>chamosite</span>, partially altered to<span> </span><span>siderite</span><span> </span>and<span> </span><span>limonite</span>. Concentric structure. Central cores of fine-grained material.</p>
<p>A layer formed of brown, transparent crystals, sometimes with rhombic cross-sections surrounds the peripheries of many ooids. This is<span> </span><span>siderite</span>.</p>
<p>Some quartz grains.</p>
<p>The cement is made up mainly of carbonate (<span>siderite</span>), with a small quantity of a green-brown material, which has anomalous interference colours.</p>
<p>This rock is a grainstone (Dunham naming system) or oo-sparite (Folk naming system).</p>
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<div class="element">
<h3>Rock History</h3>
<div class="element-text">Deposited in a moderate energy, marine energy.</div>
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<div class="element">
<h3>Advanced Notes</h3>
<div class="element-text">
<p><span>Chamosite</span><span> </span>is an Fe-rich chlorite, often greenish. It is a sheet silicate.</p>
<p><span>Limonite</span><span> </span>is amorphous or cryptocrystalline, and yellow-brown to brownish-black in colour. It comprises hydrated iron (III) oxides with a range of compositions.</p>
<p><span>Siderite</span><span> </span>is iron carbonate (FeCO<sub>3</sub>). It is often difficult to distinguish siderite from calcite and dolomite optically.</p>
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<h3>Rock Name</h3>
<div class="element-text">oolitic ironstone<br />oolite</div>
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