| P number: | P527846 |
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| Caption: | Limestone from Bay of Fladdabister, Lerwick, Shetland. |
| Description: | A medium-grained, grey crystalline limestone with veins of white and pink calcite from the south side of the Bay of Fladdabister. The limestone contains thin dark seams. BGS Sample SL 184. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7622. A metamorphic limestone. Pink and blue crystalline limestone forms the Ness of Fladdabister and extends to the south-west for a distance of over half a mile with a width of about 440 yards. It is cut off on the west by a fault. There is a good deal of schist interbanded with the limestone in some places. The dip is mainly north-west at 20 degrees to 35 degrees from the Fladdabister-Okraquoy road. Reserves are abundant and overburden is negligible. A smaller outcrop of the same limestone, about 300 yards square, occurs in the Bay of Okraquoy, half a mile south of Fladdabister on the south side of the bay. On analysis this limestone (S.L. 184) showed the following percentages: calcium carbonate, 89.64, magnesium carbonate, 2.01, insoluble residue 6.37. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 239.81 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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