Cross section of shelly phosphorite from Ülgase, Estonia
by Sophie Graul, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia and France
Cross section of Tremadocian shelly phosphorites of Estonia from the former Ülgase mine. Fragments of brachiopods' shells have been accumulated in sandstone and mineralised into REE-enriched apatite during diagenesis.
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Location
- Europe (3802)
- Northern Europe (909)
- Estonia (45)
- Exact location (25.0479 E, 59.4929 N)
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- baltic (9)
- sedimentology (22)
- estonia (31)
- paleontology (11)
- apatite (20)
- ordovician (19)
- phosphorite (13)
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2560 × 1920 px;
image/jpeg; 2.8 MB
Taken on 10
March
2024
Submitted on 13 March 2025
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Sophie Graul (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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