| P number: | P552720 |
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| Caption: | Binney's Spirorbis Limestone. Right bank of River Ayr, 330 yards south of Ballochmyle House, near Catrine. Ayr. |
| Description: | Pale, flesh-coloured, compact limestone. Fine-grained limestone, composed of a semi-opaque aggregate of calcite granules 0.005 mm grain-size, with small areas of coarsely crystalline calcite and thin impersistent calcite-filled fractures. Rarely the calcite-filled areas have the thin corrugated or the smooth walls of Spirorbis or ostracods respectively. Limestone, pelitomorphic, subfossiliferous. SL0096. Britrocks S34562. 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: | 326.38 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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