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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 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
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