| P number: | P552794 |
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| Caption: | Arden (Calmy Limestone, top post). The more southerly of Darnley Quarries, about 1 mile south-east of Nitshill station. Renfrew. |
| Description: | Medium-grey, dull compact limestone, composed of a brownish semi-opaque base of carbonate (calcite) and clay material, sometimes patchily concentrated. In this lie scattered small calcareous fragments of fossils, scarce phosphatic fossil fragments and very numerous small rhomboid crystals, 0.02 mm across, of dolomite. A little pyrite and carbonaceous matter are present. The abundant residue after treatment with cold dilute HCl is mainly a mixture of amorphous clay with some kaolinite and muscovite. Limestone, dolomite, luteous, micrograined, subclastizoic. SL0140. Britrocks S34626. 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: | 415.33 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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