| P number: | P527830 |
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| Caption: | Limestone from Corrie, Arran, Buteshire. |
| Description: | A limestone showing a highly deformed faulted surface. Its colour is variable, purple and grey. The limestone is the Carboniferous Corrie (Hurlet) Limestone. BGS Sample SL 82. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7606. The quarry and mine workings are now abandoned. The full thickness of the limestone is said to be 20 ft, it lies under a cover of sandstone and shale reaching 30 feet. The individual limestone beds are separated by partings of reddish fossiliferous shales; and the roof of the old mines is formed of a hard band crowded with Productus giganteus. The present line of quarries follows the outcrop up the steep hillside above Corrie Harbour for a distance of about 400 yards before it is cut off by a fault. Other occurrences of the. Corrie Limestone are to be found between Corrie and Brodick; and some of these, for example, that at An Sgriob, 14 miles south by west of Corrie Harbour and 8 miles north of Maol Donn are considerable deposits. They would require to be mined. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 251.27 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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