5. Carbonate rocks in Denmark and surrounding countries
Chalk from Rügen in Northern Germany – Königstuhl. Similar formations can be found at the Danish Island of Møn

6. Carbonate rocks in Denmark and surrounding countries – Stevns Klint

7. Carbonate rocks in Denmark and surrounding countries – Stevns Klint

8. Carbonate rocks in Denmark and surrounding countries – Stevns Klint

9. Carbonate rocks in Denmark and surrounding countries

10. Carbonate rocks in Denmark and surrounding countries
Römerstein

13. Carbonate classification
Original from Folk 1959

14. Folk’s textural classification of carbonate sediments

15. Why classification?
Rocks are classified in order to communicate information about them.

16. Micrite
A large volume of any limestone is usually composed of carbonate mud or micrite. Because of the small size of the grains or crystals in the micrite, identification of their origin is difficult to impossible.

17. Micrite

18. Sparry calcite cement

19. Relation of Holocene carbonate grains to hydrodynamic setting

20. Carbonates in relation to sea-level
occur in rocks can be communicated by means of limestone classifications.
                                                            
Carbonates in relation to sea-level

38. Famous modern localities – The Bahamas