| P number: | P552758 |
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| Caption: | Loch Tay Limestone. 400 yards south-west of Glensluan Cottage, 1 mile south of Strachur. Argyll. |
| Description: | Grey crystalline sparkling limestone. Composed of elongated twinned and cleaved grains of calcite 1.0 mm and over in length, of lens shape and arranged with the long axes in one plane. Small grains and aggregates of quartz, 0.5 mm across, and flakes of muscovite, sometimes with bent detrital appearance, are numerous and plagioclase feldspar grains are scarce. Opaque grains and granules of pyrite and probably carbon are numerous. Limestone with quartz and muscovite, medium-grained, granoschistose. SL0134. Britrocks S34582. 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: | 330.07 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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