Paleonet: Vicentine

[Weil, Anne]

Although, if it is Paleogene, we are not talking about Portugal.  The Vicentine coast of Portugal appears to be Carboniferous.
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/06/southwest-alentejo-and-vicentine-coast-natural-park.html

De La Beche refers to his Vicentine limestone in Chiampo, Valdagno, and Magre – on p. 247 he refers to the Vicentine as including Monte Bolca.  Monte Bolca is indeed Eocene.

What this has to do with Normandy, beyond the similarities of the sediments perceived in 1850, is unfortunately beyond me.

Anne

From: Paleonet [mailto:paleonet-bounces at nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Roger D. K. Thomas
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Rodrigo:

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A Google search suggests quite another location:
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Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park is a natural park in the Alentejo and Algarve regions of south-central Portugal.

A geological manual -Page 625 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?id=qBc5AAAAMAAJ
Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1833 - ‎Geology
Oolitic rocks, of England, 314; of Normandy, 316 ; of the North of France, ib.; ... 273 ; at Cussac, ib. ; of the Vicentine, 276 ; of the supracretaceous blue marls of  . . .
On page 276 of A Geological Manual, De La Beche provides a long list of fossils, including Nummulites.  So, this would be Paleogene, not Cretaceous.

Kind regards,   Roger

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Weil, Anne <anne.weil at okstate.edu<mailto:anne.weil at okstate.edu>> wrote:
As far as I can tell the Vicentine is a Cretaceous limestone cropping out in Italy.
However, at least one author noted its similarity to marls in Normandy.  (“On the epiolitic rocks of the Venetian Alps,” 1850, by Prof. T. A. Catullo in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, available via Google Books)  Is it possible that at one time the marls in Normandy were considered to be outcrops of the same formation?

Anne

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From: Paleonet [mailto:paleonet-bounces at nhm.ac.uk<mailto:paleonet-bounces at nhm.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Howard Gibbins
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Rodrigo,

From the way it is worded, I would guess that they mean "[from the] vicinity of Normandy, France", and simply refers to the collection location of the specimen.

Hope this helps,

Howard

On Mar 10, 2015, at 07:28, Rodrigo Salvador <salvador.rodrigo.b at gmail.com<mailto:salvador.rodrigo.b at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
I've got a fossil listed in the work of Férussac (1821) that is from the Vicentine of Normandy, France.
Do any of you know what is meant as Vicentine by these earlier authors? Is it from the Cretaceous?
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Rodrigo Salvador.

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