| P number: | P527888 |
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| Caption: | Limestone from Randerston, near Fife Ness, Fifeshire. |
| Description: | A specimen of 'Kirkby's III Limestone' from the shore at Randerston, seven miles east-south-east of St. Andrews, Fife. This limestone is one of several thin calcareous beds in the Randerston area just north-west of Fife Ness. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7664. It is a four feet thick coarsely platy, irony, shelly rock of lumachelle type. The shells are replaced by turbid coarsely granular ferriferous dolomite, and are embedded in a matrix of carbonate, stained and cemented by limonite. This carbonate is in part very finely granular, in part recrystallized to a mosaic of irregular grain up to 0.1 mm across. Numerous fragments of small shells and scarce quartz and mica are scattered through the fine-grained matrix. The rock is Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone Series age and resemble strongly the Lower Carboniferous cementstones from other parts of the Midland Valley. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 203.03 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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