Limestone

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Age: 
7 millions years

Russia, North coast of the sea of Azov. Limestone, bioclastic limestone. Neogene. Upper Miocene. Meoticheskiy tier. N31m

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Age: 
4 millions years

Russia, Rostov region. Limestone, bioclastic limestone. Neogene. Low Pliocene. Ponticheskiy tier. N12pn

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Age: 
165 millions years

Sardinia, Gola di Gorropu. Upper Jurassic succession of Easern Sardinia. Bioclastic limestones, oolitic cherty limestones and mudstones, of littoral-cricalittoral environment, with algae, benthic foraminifer and nerineids. Alternatively: Dogger-Malm.

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Age: 
165 millions years

Sardinia, Cala Luna. Upper Jurassic succession of Easern Sardinia. Karst cave in the gorge wall. Bioclastic limestones, oolitic cherty limestones and mudstones, of littoral-cricalittoral environment, with algae, benthic foraminifer and nerineids. Alternatively: Dogger-Malm.

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Age: 
165 millions years

Sardinia, Cala Luna. Upper Jurassic succession of Easern Sardinia. Bioclastic limestones, oolitic cherty limestones and mudstones, of littoral-cricalittoral environment, with algae, benthic foraminifer and nerineids. Alternatively: Dogger-Malm.

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Age: 
300 millions years

Volcano-sedimentary succession. Conglomerates, sandstones, with alternating epiclastic rocks, volcanic breccias, lacustrine limestones, with cherty levels and anthracite lenses, shales, with plants remains, sporomorphs and pollens, ostracods and amphibians. Upper Carboniferous. Moscovian, Kasimovian, Gzhelian.... (alternatively: Westphalian D (?) - Autunian. C2

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Age: 
300 millions years

Volcano-sedimentary succession. Conglomerates, sandstones, with alternating epiclastic rocks, volcanic breccias, lacustrine limestones, with cherty levels and anthracite lenses, shales, with plants remains, sporomorphs and pollens, ostracods and amphibians. Upper Carboniferous. Moscovian, Kasimovian, Gzhelian.... (alternatively: Westphalian D (?) - Autunian. C2

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Age: 
86 millions years

Middle-Upper Cretaceous succession of Western Sardinia. Carbonatic shelf deposits: limestones, marls and glauconitic calcarenites of sublitoral environment with benthic foraminifers, algae, rudists, locally lacustrine limestones with carophyts. Middle-Upper Cretaceous. Cenomanian-Campanian. K2

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Age: 
86 millions years

Middle-Upper Cretaceous succession of Western Sardinia. Carbonatic shelf deposits: limestones, marls and glauconitic calcarenites of sublitoral environment with benthic foraminifers, algae, rudists, locally lacustrine limestones with carophyts. Middle-Upper Cretaceous. Cenomanian-Campanian. K2

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Age: 
135 millions years

Lower Cretaceous succession of Western Sardinia. Carbonatic shelf deposits: limestones, dolomitic limestones, oolitic limestones, and bioclastic limestones of sublittoral environment (facies "Urgoniana"; Dragonara Fm.), with benthic foraminifers, algae rudists, bryozoan, serpulids, at the base: paralic marly limestones and marls (facies "Purbeckiana"), with charophytes and ostracods. Lower Cretacous. Berriasian - lower Aptian. K1