P number: | P552728 |
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Caption: | Lower Linn Limestone. Caaf Water, Linn Bridge, Dalry. Ayr. |
Description: | Bluish-grey, compact limestone or limy mudstone. Consists of a base of clear and brown minutely granular calcite in which small, uniformly sized, chips of calcite and, occasionally, small crinoid columnals and shell fragments are set along with small grains of quartz, flakes of muscovite and bleached mica, specks of carbonaceous and bituminous matter and grains of pyrite. Calcareous mudstone. SL0112. Britrocks S34567. 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: | 434.08 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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