| P number: | P552659 |
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| Caption: | North Greens (No. 2) Limestone, basal mined band. Quarry on left bank of Tyne Water, 200 yards north of Currie Lee Limeworks, 3 miles east of Gorebridge. Mid Lothian. |
| Description: | Compact, fawn-grey limestone composed of finely triturated debris of calcareous organisms with numerous fragments of small shells and many foraminifera and scarcer spines, Calcisphaera, polyzoan and algal fragments, and small faecal pellets, in a recrystallized base of finely granular calcite. Limestone, micrograined, microfossiliferous, clastizoichnic. SL0055. Britrocks S34536. 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: | 333.62 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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