Soil information in relation to wine
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| Igneous | show 🗑
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| show | One of the 2 types of igneous soil high is silica, eg. granite.
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| show | One of the 2 types of igneous soil high in iron and magnesium, eg. basalt.
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| Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic | show 🗑
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| Sedimentary | show 🗑
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| show | One of the 4 major types of sedimentary soils consisting of gravel, sand, mud; many subclassifications like sandstone.
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| show | One of the 4 major types of sedimentary soils consisting of limestone, coal and chert formed by biological aspects.
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| show | A sedimentary rock consisting almost entirely of silica, Many types; 3 include: Biological, Replacement, or from direct precipitation of silica rich fluids.
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| Chemical | show 🗑
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| "the rare other" | show 🗑
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| Metamorphic | show 🗑
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| show | __________________ & _____________ comes from the original stone or base materials.
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| show | One of the 5 major types of metamorphic rock comprising of volcanic ash or clay, which becomes shale via compression, fine grained.
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| Schist | show 🗑
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| show | One of the 5 major types of metamorphic rock comprising of Igneous or sedimentary rocks, course grained.
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| show | One of the 5 major types of metamorphic rock comprising of marble, quartzite formed mostly by sedimentary rock, including fossils, course grained.
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| Hornfell | show 🗑
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| show | Type of soil, sediment deposited by wind, e.g. loess.
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| Albariza | show 🗑
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| Albarese | show 🗑
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| show | A type of schist found in Maury Roussillon.
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| Acidic | show 🗑
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| show | Any soil with a pH higher than 7 (neutral). Examples include chalk and clay.
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| show | Material that has been transported by a river and deposited. Most of these types of soils contain silt, sand, and gravel. Most vineyards in the world are planted on this soil, very fertile.
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| show | AKA sedimentary rock, aka stratified rock, one of the 3 major types of rock, formed with layers of sediment compress.
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| Arenaceous | show 🗑
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| Aréne | show 🗑
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| Argillaceous | show 🗑
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| Argovian-marl | show 🗑
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| show | Red, Triassic sandstone consisting of feldspare, quartz, and clay minerals; found in parts of Cote d'Auvergne and parts of Beaujolais , eg. St-Amour.
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| show | Similar to Albariza but brown in color, sandier with less diatomaceous earth, reserved for Pedro Ximenez though some Palamino grapes are grown on this soil type.
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| show | Accounts for up to 90% of all lava-based volcanic rocks containing various minerals, rich in lime and soda, but no quartz.
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| show | A bordelais name for medium heavy sand-clay soil with medium fertility.
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| Bauxite | show 🗑
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| Block-like | show 🗑
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| Boulbéne | show 🗑
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| Calcareous-clay | show 🗑
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| show | Soil that is derived from rotting vegetation under anaerobic conditions, most common of these soils are peat, Lignite, coal, anthracite.
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| show | A general label for any mixture of soils containing calcium magnesium carbonate. essentially alkaline it promotes the production of acid in grapes. Cools soils with good water retention and permeability with the exception of calcareous clay.
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| Chalk | show 🗑
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| Clay | show 🗑
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| show | Fertile version of loam but heavy to work when wet.
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| Coal | show 🗑
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| Colluvium | show 🗑
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| show | Iron rich hard-pan found in the libournais, AKA manchefer.
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| show | May be either igneous or metamorphic. if intrusive it always has this quality, in extrusive may have a differing percentages.
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| Dolomite | show 🗑
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| show | A type of limestone found most notably in Burgundy, Montagny, and in Pouilly-sur-Loire. Refers to the oldest part of the Oxfordian era.
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| show | the most abundant group minerals in the world, when combined making up 60% of the earths crust. A white or rose color silicate of either potassium-alluminum or sodium-calcium-aluminum, found in granite and basalt.
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| Ferruginous-clay | show 🗑
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| show | A siliceous stone that stores and reflects heat and is often associated with a specific aroma.
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| show | A dark, course-grained igneous rock found in Muscadet.
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| Galestro | show 🗑
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| show | a mass of small stone deposited by glacial action.
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| show | A pinkish, decomposed, granite, arenaceous soil found in Beaujolais, St-Joseph, Cotes Roanaisse.
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| show | a course grained metamorphic rock with visual sedimentary stratification.
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| Schist | show 🗑
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| Granite | show 🗑
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| show | A generic term that cover siliceous pebble of various sizes that are loose, granular airy and has excellent drainage. Infertile causing roots to dig deep to the subsoil. Over limestone subsoil it has even higher acidity than clay.
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| Greensand | show 🗑
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| show | Iron potassium phyllosilicate mineral of characteristic green color.
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| show | Argillaceous rocks possibly formed as recently as a few thousand years ago by rivers depositing mudstone, quartz, feldspar; found in Germany, South Africa, New Zealand.
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| show | Highly absorbent, hydrated calcium-sulphate formed during the evaporation of sea water.
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| Gypsiferous-marl | show 🗑
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| show | A dense layer of clay that forms in the subsoil, impermeable to water and roots.
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| show | A silicate of iron, aluminum, calcium and magnesium constituting the main mineral in basalt, granite, and gneiss.
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| Humus | show 🗑
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| show | Sandy, iron-rich solid subsoil.
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| Jory | show 🗑
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| show | Stratigraphic name for the Upper Triassic period, can be marl (varied color, saliferous grey or gypsiferous), or limestone (ammonoid).
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| show | A grey-ish limestone originally identified in Dorset, England.
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| show | a sticky calcareous clay containing limestone
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| show | A freshwater limestone that forms at the bottom of the lakes. Commonly found in Yakima Valley Washington, and Quincy in Loire.
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| Lignite | show 🗑
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| Limestone | show 🗑
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| show | The Catalan name for a black slate and quartz soil found in Priorate Spain.
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| show | A warm, soft, crumbly soil with roughly equal proportion clay, sand, and silt. Perfect for large-cropping, mediocre wines, too fertile for fine wine.
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| Loess | show 🗑
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| Machefer | show 🗑
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| Macigno | show 🗑
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| Marl | show 🗑
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| Marlstone | show 🗑
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| Mica | show 🗑
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| Millstone | show 🗑
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| show | A sedimentary soil similar to clay but without the elastic characteristics
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| Muschelkalk | show 🗑
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| Oolite | show 🗑
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| show | A term used for small round calcareous pebbles that have grown through the fusion of very fine particles, creates a type of limestone found in burgundy
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| Palus | show 🗑
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| Pelite | show 🗑
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| show | Very stony flinty clay combined with silica. Soils warm up quickly, and are said to be why SB exhibits a flinty characteristic when grown on it, found in Vouvray, and Montlouis-sur-Loire ,Touraine.
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| show | Limestone on marly rock that has been peppered with tiny peppercorn-like grains of basalt from volcanic activity, found on Madeira and Snake River, Idaho)
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| Perlite | show 🗑
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| show | Dark colored sedimentary rock bearing stratas of quartz crystal, found in Savennieres and Coteaux du Layon.
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| Platy | show 🗑
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| show | A colored igneous rock with high pH.
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| Precipitated-salts | show 🗑
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| Prism-like | show 🗑
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| show | A term used for a large conglomerate of heat returning pebbles.
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| Quartz | show 🗑
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| show | Loosely described as mass mineral matter. 3 types: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary (aqueous or stratified)
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| Ruedas | show 🗑
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| show | A fine grained brilliant, brilliant-red sandstone, soil rich in iron-oxide, formed in parts of the Languedoc, particularly in the VdP des Coteaux de Salagou.
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| show | A sandy-marl found in the southern Rhone Valley
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| show | A decomposed red Tufa soil that is highly regarded in Madeira
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| Sand | show 🗑
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| show | Sedimentary rock composed of sand bonded by pressure or various iron materials.
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| show | Warm, well drained, sand dominated loam, easy to work and is suitable for early ripening varieties.
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| show | weathered material transported by gravity or hill-wash (colluvium)
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| show | Heat retaining fine grained moderately fertile sedimentary rock, _________ can turn to slate under pressure
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| show | Pebble or gravel-sized particles rounded by water action.
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| Silex | show 🗑
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| show | A generic term for acid rock of a crystalline structure, may be organic like flint, or inorganic like quartz. has good heat retention, no water retention unless found in finely ground form like silt, clay, and often sedimentary soils.
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| Silt | show 🗑
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| Slate | show 🗑
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| show | Half formed slate created under lower pressure but still high temperature.
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| Spiroidal | show 🗑
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| show | A type of schist metamorphosed with the Andlau granite and is particularly hard and slaty. found on the north side of Andlau in Alsace and has mixed with the granitic sand from top of Grand Cru Kastelberg, dark stoney soil
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| show | One of the three basic rocks also known a sedimentary or aqueous
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| show | A red clay-like, sometimes flinty sedimentary soil that is deposited after carbonate has been leached out of limestone, often known a "red earth"
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| show | Kimmeridgian marls of Sancerre
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| Tuff | show 🗑
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| show | A limestone concretion that forms via water dripping through gaps in limestone, found in Orvieto, Umbria, Montalcino, Tuscany and Langhe
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| Tuffeau | show 🗑
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| Willakenzie | show 🗑
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| 500 | show 🗑
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| Cambrian | show 🗑
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| Jurassic | show 🗑
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| show | Generation of exoskeletons accumulated on the sea bed, concentrating in the warm shallow water in a thick jelly-like Calcite and meta-stable aragonite at the bottom of a shallow lagoon, eventually solidifying into _____________.
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| show | A mineral found in limestone, soluble in ground water, and is responsible for the chemical weathering in caverns and sinkholes.
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| show | Limestone is formed, eroded, as _________ it is transported by ground water and formed in another location
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| show | Are sedimentary rock formations that contain at leas 50% calcium carbonate in the corm of calcite.
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| Higher | show 🗑
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| Silica | show 🗑
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| show | Harder more commercial limestones are named from the _______ the originate.
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| Fossilized sea-life | show 🗑
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| show | French word for limestone
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| Comblacien | show 🗑
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| show | Formed by still water lagoon too high in saturation of calcium for most sea-life to survive. Formed by the settling of this calcium, and worms working their way through the thick gooey partially formed layers. These trails are filled in with cleat calcium carbonate, working like a glue to for a marble like amazingly dense black of stone.
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| Gevrey-Chambertine | show 🗑
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| Premeaux | show 🗑
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| Premeaux | show 🗑
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| show | a type of limestone named for the ________(noun), multi armed sea creatures (anemones, starfish, and urchins), that dominated the lagoons over Burgundy, friable because of its many fossils.
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| show | One of the finest types of limestone making up the Premier Cru Hillside from Lavaux, Estournelles and Clos St. Jacques. It also follows under Chapelle Girotte, Labricieres, Charmes Chambertin, the lower half of Chambertine and Clos de Beze.
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| Nantoux | show 🗑
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| Ladoix & Chassagne | show 🗑
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| show | A type of limestone that consist of larger amounts of clay, often making them quite soft and friable, in many ways like a hardened version of marl. May appear silvery because of the substantial amount of clay.
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| show | This type of limestone soil can be found in the heart of Clos de Beze and Chambertine, as well as the lower third of Lavaux, St-Jacques and Clos St-Jacques
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| Bioturbated | show 🗑
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| show | Not a maritime derived limestone, it is a terrestrial calcium carbonate created by the geothermicaly heated springs. Very porous, it is filled and sealed for construction purposes. The porosity is created by calcium dioxide erosion or by organisms.
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| Marble | show 🗑
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| show | Comblacien limestone sits as the cape-stone on these two hills. the southern-most hill is in?
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| Oxfordian | show 🗑
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| Molaise | show 🗑
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| show | a type of limestone with With fossilized starfish. Retains moisture resulting in cool subsoil, lends to a fresh elegance in the wines.
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