| P number: | P552596 |
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| Caption: | Grantown Limestone. 450 yards south-east of Coldholme, Dulnain Bridge. Moray. |
| Description: | Pale grey and yellowish grey banded, medium-grained crystalline limestone. Composed of granular calcite of varying grain, 0.2 to 3 mm, with bands rich in granular potash-feldspar, albite and de-composed plagioclase, together with numerous rounded and prismatic grains of diopside and tremolite and flakes of brown phlogopite. Apatite and sphene are accessory. Limestone with feldspars, diopside, tremolite and phlogopite, foliated, granoblastic. S 34500. As above, but plagioclase (oligoclase) is abundant. Diopside forms large ragged prisms. Pale brown phlogopite is an important constituent. Zoisite also is accessory. Limestone with feldspars, diopside, tremolite and phlogopite, foliated, porphyroblastic. SL0013. Britrocks S34499. 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: | 300.19 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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