| P number: | P552467 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, Chapel Quarry, about 2 miles north-west of Kirkcaldy. Fife Region. |
| Description: | Pale grey limestone with pink and white patches. (Specimen from near the quarry floor). The rock is partly a limestone composed of organic debris with abundant echinodermal fragments. Throughout this portion grains of datolite and garnet are common. Part of the rock is more shaly, enclosing crinoid remains. This portion is brown and opaque, but near the edge of the slide it shows fibres and a multitude of minute grains and prisms with high extinction angle. 'Pectolite has been observed as the main constituent of two very thin sinuous and impersistent veins in one of which the pectolite is locally replaced by apophyllite.' (Phemister and MacGregor, op. cit.). Limestone with calcsilicates, fine-grained, zoichnic, bedded. SL0010. Britrocks S34445(b2). 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. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 354.45 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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