| P number: | P552762 |
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| Caption: | Marble. Old Quarry 250 yards south-west of west end of Loch an Sgor Ghaothair, Glen Urquhart. Inverness. |
| Description: | Composed of interlocking large grains of calcite within and between which are scattered grains of quartz, prisms of tremolite and flakes of phlogopite. Quartz is more abundant in some bands and is then accompanied by large grains of zoisite, containing vermicular inclusions of quartz, and by muscovite. apatite, rutile and pyrite are accessory. Sphene, oligoclase, have pleochroic haloes. Sphene grains in phlogopite Limestone with phlogopite and calcsilicates, coarse-grained, granoblastic, foliated. SL0106. Britrocks S34585. 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: | 247.52 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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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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