| P number: | P527872 |
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| Caption: | Limestone from Bogie Mains Quarry, Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire. |
| Description: | A pale grey limestone with a coarse appearance due to the abundance of large crinoidal remains. The limestone belongs to the Charlestown Main Limestone of the Lower Limestone Group, Carboniferous and is from Bogie Mains Quarry, one mile north-west of Kirkcaldy station. BGS Sample SL 278. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7648. There are three bands of limestone in the quarry, all rather coarse-grained and which appear to have been altered by the proximity to intrusive whinstone. The workings, which are in the Charlestown Main Limestone, were noted in 1949 as being abandoned and full of water. The general dip is east-north-east at 10 degrees to 12 degrees. In the centre of the old quarry, just north of the east-and-west track, the dip of the beds west of the flooded area is south-westerly in direction and this suggests that there may have been some reef-knoll development. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 312.19 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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