| P number: | P552681 |
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| Caption: | Gritty Limestone. Old quarry 200 yards west 30 degrees north of Dubton station. Angus. |
| Description: | White pink-speckled saccharoidal gritty limestone composed of granular calcite, grain-size about 0.25 mm, and subordinate but abundant quartz and some potash-feldspar in angular to subangular grains of fairly uniform size (0.15 - 0.4mm). There are a few pebbles of cornstone and pebbly grains of strained quartz, fine sandstone or greywacke and felsite. Chlorite is accessory; tourmaline, anatase, zircon and apatite scarce. Limestone, arenaceous, medium-grained, subpoikilocrystallic. SL0026. Britrocks S34547. 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: | 281.68 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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