| P number: | P552662 |
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| Caption: | North Greens (No. 2) Limestone. Quarry 400 yards north 5 degrees east of D'Arcy Farm, 2.25 miles south-east of Dalkeith. Mid Lothian. |
| Description: | Platy, dark grey, calcareous shale. The section shows a brown-stained, isotropic, argillaceous base in which are set very numerous fragments of calcareous organisms, including echinoderms and shells, prisms of calcite showing rectangular and occasional hexagonal sections, and small bodies giving circular sections. A few small grains of quartz are present and specks of carbonaceous and bituminous matter are abundant. Calcareous shale, clastizoic. S 34538. The section shows a more intimate mixture of argillaceous and fine calcareous material enclosing many small crinoid columnals and some shell fragments. Calcareous shale, clastizoic. SL0056. Britrocks S34537. 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: | 298.17 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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