| P number: | P552447 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone. Roscobie Quarry and mine, 3 miles north of Dunfermline. Fife Region. |
| Description: | A very dark grey limestone containing numerous large crinoid ossicles. Unsorted complete and fragmentary crinoid ossicles, preserved in coarsely granular calcite, are embedded in a matrix of microgranular calcite and small recrystallized fossil debris. Black, carbonaceous matter is locally abundant interstitially to the calcite matrix. A small amount of dolomite is present in the larger, recrystallized shell fragments. Limestone, dolomitic, varigrained, xoophasmic. SL0009. Britrocks S34443(a). Magnification x40. Light PPL. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | Sutherland, A. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | Description from: Limestones of Scotland: chemical analyses and petrography. Edinburgh : HMSO, 1956. 10 minutes in Logwood stain. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 358.10 KB; 1000 x 750 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 198 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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