Shelly phosphorite from the Aseri deposit, Estonia.
by Sophie Graul, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia and France
Shelly phosphorite from the Aseri deposit, Estonia.
Shell fragments display different degrees of alteration, up to the degradation of the apatite (right corner).
Dark laminae correspond to layers that originally contained organic matter and are often rich in pyrite.
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Location
- Europe (3761)
- Northern Europe (903)
- Estonia (43)
- Exact location (26.5714 E, 59.4975 N)
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- estonia (29)
- sedimentary rocks (32)
- resources (9)
- carbonates (5)
- apatite (18)
- mineral deposits (31)
- ordovician (17)
- shell (8)
- geochemistry (9)
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2560 × 1920 px;
image/jpeg; 2.9 MB
Taken in
2023
Submitted on 2 June 2024
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Sophie Graul (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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