| P number: | P552565 |
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| Caption: | Lower Lias limestone, upper fossiliferous portion. Loch Aline Quarry at mouth of Allt na Samhnachain, east side of Loch Aline. Lower Lias limestone, Skye (Inverness). |
| Description: | A pale grey, compact limestone composed of fine-grained calcite, 0.005 mm across, in which numerous angular quartz grains, up to 0.1 mm across, and small shells and shell fragments are set. Long thin pieces of phosphatic shell, carbonaceous shreds, and granules of pyrite, often oxidized, are common. Limestone, luteous, pelitomorphic, clastizoic. SL0090. Britrocks S34485. 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: | 356.70 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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