| P number: | P552511 |
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| Caption: | Dolomitic limestone. Muiredge, 2 miles north of Anstruther. Fife Region. |
| Description: | Flaggy earthy brown dolomite with streaks of calcite. Composed of a great number of small shells, preserved in turbid ferriferous dolomite, all lying parallel to the bedding and cemented by irregularly oil-stained fine-grained carbonate which is largely a ferriferous dolomite, with varying content of ferrodolomite but never pure dolomite. Scarce granules of sideritic carbonate of high refractive index are distributed through the fine-grained carbonate; finely divided clay material occurs in shell casts, and some phosphatic fragments and grains of pyrite are present. Heavy yellow oil is evolved from the powdered rock on heating in a closed tube. Ferriferous dolomite, bituminous, micrograined, microzoichnic, bedded. SL0032. Britrocks S34454(a). 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. 10 minutes in Logwood stain. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 495.87 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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