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Caption: North Greens (No. 2) Limestone, upper 30 feet of bed. Middleton Quarry, 1100 yards south-west of Middleton. Mid Lothian.
Description: A fine uniform grained, fawn-grey limestone, composed of recrystallized grains of calcite (0.05 mm grain-size) cemented by limonitic clay which is locally abundant and impregnated with black matter. Isolated fragments of polyzoa, thin-walled valves and foraminifera are preserved. Limestone, fine-grained, microfossiliferous, clastizoichnic. SL0042. Britrocks S34531. 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
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