P number: | P552595 |
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Caption: | Blair Atholl Limestone. 480 yards south-south-west of Shierglass, 1 mile south-east of Blair Atholl. Perth. |
Description: | A dove-grey, medium-grained limestone composed of inter-locking grains of closely-twinned calcite of varying size (about 0.25 - 1.0 mm) with a little colourless mica, quartz and scarce turbid alkali-feldspar; accessory pyrite, graphite, limonite, and sphene. Limestone with quartz and muscovite, medium-grained, granoblastic. SL0012. Britrocks S34498. 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: | 374.69 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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