| P number: | P519851 |
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| Caption: | Specimen of hornblendic marble from Tiree, Argyllshire, Scotland |
| Description: | The sample is a polished slab of Tiree marble with a distinctive rich pink colour with large silvery-green patches. Tiree marble was much prized for its decorative qualities. Its deep pink mottled appearance is unlike most of the marbles from the Scottish Highlands (for example Iona, Skye and Ledmore), which are pale white and green serpentinite marbles. The Tiree marble was quarried at the same time as the Iona marble, following the founding of the Argyle Marble Company which was established after a visit to the Hebrides by the German geologist Rudolph Erich Raspe around 1789. The Tiree marble is part of the Precambrian Lewisian Complex, the oldest rocks of the British Isles. The main outcrop of marble on Tiree, the Balephetrish Quarry, is completely enclosed by Lewisian gneiss. The marble consists of a groundmass of granular calcite with subordinate dolomite, containing dark patches of a green pyroxene called salite, a calcium- and magnesium-rich diopside. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Bain, T.S. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 248.19 KB; 1000 x 775 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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