P number: | P552551 |
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Caption: | Ballachulish Limestone. Old Quarry, Creag Aoil, Torlundy. Inverness. |
Description: | Recrystallized limestone composed of interlocking grains (0.4 - 3mm) of closely twinned calcite, abundant accessory quartz forming small 0.1mm grains enclosed in calcite, and accessory biotite and muscovite. Limestone with some quartz, coarse-grained, granoblastic, slightly sheared. SL0085. Britrocks S34480. 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: | 411.78 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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