Concept information
Preferred term
bioclast
Definition
- Bioclasts are skeletal fossil fragments of once living marine or land organisms that are found in sedimentary rocks laid down in a marine environment—especially limestone varieties around the globe. some of which take on distinct textures and coloration from their predominate bioclasts—that geologists, archaeologists and paleontologists use to date a rock strata to a particular geological era. (Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioclast)
Broader concept
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/QX8-9RBHDZLJ-9
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