| P number: | P552562 |
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| Caption: | Lower Lias limestone, lower solid portion. Loch Aline Quarry at mouth of Allt na Samhnachain, east side of Loch Aline. Argyll. |
| Description: | A dull, compact, blue-grey limestone composed of unsorted echinodermal and shell fragments in a matrix of fine-grained calcite, 0.005 mm across, containing numerous angular quartz grains and shreds of carbonaceous matter, some pyrite, and scarce fossil phosphate and muscovite, glauconite and biotite. Limestone, luteous, micrograined, clastixoic. SL0089. Britrocks S34484. 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: | 397.11 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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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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