Fig. 5From: Multi-proxy facies analysis of the Opalinus Clay and depositional implications (Mont Terri rock laboratory, Switzerland)Distinctive petrographic features of the subfacies. Pictures from the split core. Scale bar indicates two centimetres. Blue arrows evidence epoxy resin. a Shaly facies (SF1). Yellow arrow points to mm thick rounded lenses, interpreted as bioturbational structures. b Carbonate-rich sandy facies (SF2). Yellow arrows show small ripples and thin, discontinuous, wavy laminae. White arrow indicates a thin, continuous, bioclastic lamina. c Sandy facies (SF3). Yellow arrows point to bioturbational structures. d Sandy facies (SF4). Yellow arrows evidence mud drapes. e Carbonate-rich sandy facies (SF4). Yellow arrows point to cm thick pyritized burrows. f Carbonate-rich sandy facies (SF2 and SF5). Yellow arrow evidences a SF5 patch. White arrow points to starved ripples (SF2). g 6 cm thick, authigenic, calcareous bed within the shaly facies. Cone-in-cone structures are not visible at macroscopic scale. h Boundary between shaly and carbonate-rich sandy facies (SF1 and SF4). Compacted, bioturbational lenses of SF4 appear within the shaly facies right below the boundary. i Carbonate-rich sandy facies (SF4). Yellow arrow evidences a brownish area associated to micritic sideriteBack to article page