| P number: | P552641 |
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| Caption: | Gilmerton Limestone, bottom part (mined). Ferniehill Quarry, Gilmerton. Mid Lothian. |
| Description: | A brownish-grey, compact limestone. Composed partly of very fine-grained calcite as nodules of algal growth, partly of a compactly bedded mass of calcareous organic debris cemented by very fine-grained turbid calcite traversed by limonitic stylolitic films. The fossils present include crinoids, ostracods, polyzoa, shells, spines, and scarce phosphatic plates. Limestone, algal, clastizoic, bedded. SL0020. Britrocks S34528. 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: | 380.97 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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