| P number: | P552732 |
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| Caption: | Hawthorn Limestone. Crossflat Burn Quarry, Muirkirk. Ayr. |
| Description: | Cream-coloured limestone, very fine-grained and composed of a pelitomorphic aggregate of calcite granules, about 0.001 mm diameter, in which very small shell and polyzoan fragments and a considerable number of forarniniferal tests are seen. The rock is traversed by impersistent cracks which have been filled with clear calcite. Limestone, pelitomorphic, microfossiliferous, subclastizoic. SL0114. Britrocks S34569. 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: | 352.31 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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