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Lyon fabric |
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Visual characteristicsThe colour varies from reddish-buff to a greenish-yellow and is in a calcareous fabric with tempering from the nearby river Saône and possibly also the Rhône (Desbat, 2003). |
PetrologyTempered with quartz, both alkaline and plagioclase felspar, mica and fragments of granite and rhyolite (Schmitt, 1993). |