Carbonate Rock Classification

Packstone

1. Packstone

Grain-supported; carbonate mud matrix between skeletal grains (dasyclad algae, benthic foraminifers, bivalves) in interparticle pore space.

Thin section kindly provided by T. Geel, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

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2. Wackestone to Packstone

Grain-supported; carbonate mud matrix in interparticle space (possibly effect of compaction from wackestone to compacted packstone) among Miocene planktonic foraminifera.

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3. Packstone

Grain-supported; carbonate mud matrix in interparticle space. Grains are oncoids made of coralline red algae (rhodoids) and skeletal fragments (serpulid worm tubes, bivalves, ostracods).

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4. Packstone

Grain-supported; carbonate mud matrix in interparticle space between skeletal grains (Charophytes algae gyrogonites).

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5. Packstone

Packstone of resedimented micritic ooids, aggregate grains and intraclasts. This packstone was depositied as a deep-water apron with ooids shed from a nearby platform margin.

Middle Jurassic, Cutri, Mallorca, Spain

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6. Packstone/Grainstone

Skeletal packstone-grainstone with gastropods and bivalves and micritic vadose meniscus cement followed by blocky sparite.

Jurassic, UK

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7. Condensed packstone

Grain-supported, diagenetic texture due to compaction and pressure solution with partial grain suturing: some grain contacts are microstylolites; between grains there is micrite matrix. Skeletal grains are large benthic foraminifera (nummulitids, discocyclinids), coralline red algae, echinoderms and bryozoans.

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Dasyclad alga Actinoporella

Benthic foraminifer

Wackestone to Packstone

Planktonic foraminifer

Packstone

Red coralline algae oncoids

Serpulid

Packstone

Charophytes algae gyrogonite

Packstone
Packstone/Grainstone

Gastropod

Meniscus vadose cement

Condensed packstone

Nummulites filled by glaucony

Sutured grain contacts

Packstone

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Dasyclad alga Actinoporella

Benthic foraminifer

Wackestone to Packstone

Planktonic foraminifer

Packstone

Red coralline algae oncoids

Serpulid

Packstone

Charophytes algae gyrogonite

Packstone
Packstone/Grainstone

Gastropod

Meniscus vadose cement

Condensed packstone

Nummulites filled by glaucony

Sutured grain contacts