| P number: | P552450 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, Chapel Quarry, about 2 miles north-west of Kirkcaldy. Fife Region. |
| Description: | S 34444. Dark grey limestone mottled with white powdery material. (Specimen from about 6-8 ft. above the quarry floor). Composed of granular carbonate, 0.1 mm grain-size, with debris of shells and crinoids. Nests of more coarsely granular carbonate have a dusky brown appearance. Lemberg's test shows that the carbonate is all calcite. Some bands of the rock are rich in tiny grains, giving square and six-sided sections, of garnet (grossular) and also in poorly shaped crystals of datolite. The largest garnet grains are about 0.08 mm across. Limestone with talc-silicates, varigrained, zoophasmic. SL0010. Britrocks S34444. Magnification x40. Light XPL. |
| 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. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 407.36 KB; 1000 x 750 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 198 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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