File:Jerusalem Limestone (likely derived from the Zihor Formation, Upper Cretaceous; Israel) 1 (14781975826).jpg
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"Jerusalem Limestone" from Israel. (field of view ~5.0 cm across) In the commercial decorative stone trade, “marble” is used to refer to a wide variety of relatively soft rocks (H = 3 to 5) that will take a fine polish. These include true marbles and rocks that aren’t marbles, such as limestones, tectonic breccias, and serpentinites. True limestones are calcitic biogenic and ~chemical sedimentary rocks. Jerusalem Limestone is a fossiliferous oolitic limestone that has been extensively used for centuries as a building stone in Jerusalem, Israel. Several Cretaceous-aged marine limestones in Israel have been & are quarried for building/decorative stone. Light from the setting sun results in these rocks having the famous “Jerusalem Gold” color. The sample shown here is a buff-colored, fossiliferous oolitic limestone. Yaacov Arkin of the Israel Geological Survey has kindly identified this rock as likely being “Mizzi Hilu” (= “sweet rock” in Arabic) from the Zihor Formation (upper Judea Group, Turonian, lower Upper Cretaceous). The small rounded structures in the limestone are oolites. The narrow, curvilinear structures are shells and shell fragments. The brownish, EKG-looking structure near the top of the photo is a stylolite (= pressure-dissolution feature). |
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| Source | Jerusalem Limestone (likely derived from the Zihor Formation, Upper Cretaceous; Israel) 1 |
| Author | James St. John |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by James St. John at https://flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/14781975826 (archive). It was reviewed on 1 December 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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