P number: | P552684 |
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Caption: | Nodular cornstone. Old quarry 400 yards west-south-west of Huntley Hill, 2.5 miles north-east of Brechin. Angus. |
Description: | Dark grey-brown compact limestone composed of finely divided turbid calcite, recrystallized along dessication cracks to a coarser grain. Angular grains of quartz and subordinate plagioclase, felsite with microporphyritic quartz, chert and feldspathic siltstone are abundant and range from 1 mm downwards in length. Long slivers of muscovite, biotite, oxidized biotite and chlorite are present. Garnet and staurolite are scarce accessories. Limestone, arenaceous, micrograinsd, in part clotted. SL0027. Britrocks S34548. 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: | 251.80 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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