| P number: | P552784 |
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| Caption: | Wee Post Limestone. Auchenmade Quarry, 600 yards west of Auchenmade station and 3 miles east by south of Dairy. Ayr. |
| Description: | Pale buff-grey limestone with many crinoid plates. Composed of crinoid columnals and ossicles, spines, large shell fragments, small shells, polyzoan skeletons with cells filled with dark carbonaceous dust, and occasional foraminifera. All these are set in a matrix of recrystallized granular carbonate containing many small fragments of shells and polyzoa, and scattered grains of pyrite. Limestone, micrograined, clastizoic, in part zoophasmic. SL0135. Britrocks S34621(a). 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. 10 minutes in Logwood stain. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 343.64 KB; 1000 x 750 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 198 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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