| P number: | P527865 |
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| Caption: | Limestone from Dun Beag, Torran, Skye, Invernessshire. |
| Description: | A specimen of darkish grey limestone with saccharoidal texture, which shows bedding by alternation of paler and darker grey tints. It shows whitish calcite veins. It is of Cambro-Ordovician age and belongs to the Durness Limestone (Durness Group) and is from Torran, Dun Beag, Skye, Invernessshire. BGS Sample SL 247. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7641. Practically the whole of the Torran area is composed of limestone, for the most part low in magnesia. There is no drift cover and the limestone rises steeply from the shore with deep water close at hand on the west and south-west sides. The dip is west at 45 degrees to 60 degrees. The limestone at Dun Mor itself is nearly all distinctly cherty, but the overlying beds a quarter of a mile farther north and just west of the village show several non-cherty beds of good quality. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 262.26 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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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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