Pyritised brachiopod shell fragment from the Toolse phosphorite deposit, Estonia.
by Sophie Graul, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia and France
Pyritised brachiopod shell fragment from the Toolse phosphorite deposit, Estonia.
The pyrite micro crystallisations tend to develop due to the breakdown of organic matter during diagenesis.
Sample from the Suurjõgi Member, Kallavere Formation, Tremadocian.
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- Europe (3766)
- Northern Europe (905)
- Estonia (43)
- Exact location (26.3427 E, 59.5321 N)
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- minerals (33)
- palaeontology (3)
- estonia (29)
- sedimentary rocks (33)
- resources (9)
- apatite (18)
- mineral deposits (33)
- ordovician (17)
- geochemistry (9)
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1846 × 954 px;
image/jpeg; 1.2 MB
Taken in
2022
Submitted on 2 June 2024
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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Sophie Graul (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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