Lutetian limestones in the Paris region: Petrographic and compositional examination
- Lab. de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, Champs-sur-Marne (France)
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States). Chemistry Dept.
Stone for building and decorating monuments in the Paris Basin from antiquity to the present came from numerous quarries in the Lutetian limestone formations of the region. To identify specific stone sources used for masonry and sculptures in these monuments, a team of geologists and archaeologists have investigated 300 quarries and collected 2,300 limestone samples for study in a collaborative effort by geologists and chemists. Petrographic and paleontologic examinations of thin sections enable geologists to distinguish the Tertiary Lutetian limestones from similar stone in Jurassic and Cretaceous strata. The methods of the geologist have been supplemented by those of the chemistry whose compositional studies by neutron activation analysis can differentiate among the fine-grained upper Lutetian limestones extracted from specific ancient quarries.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Chemistry Dept., Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 307839
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-66036; CONF-9806173-; ON: DE99001514; BR: KP0203000; TRN: AHC29905%%16
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ASMOSIA conference, Boston, MA (United States), 11-15 Jun 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1998]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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