P number: | P552802 |
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Caption: | Limestone. Quarry 500 yards north-east of CaIdronlee Farm, l.5 miles east-south-east of Waterbeck. Dumfries. |
Description: | Pinkish, sparkling, compact limestone, composed of fragments of shells and polyzoa, many and various foraminifera, productid spines, Calcisphaera, and ostracods cemented in a fine-grained base of shapeless calcite and recrystallized small organic fragments. A little pyrite and probably some clay are present. Limestone, fine-grained, microfossiliferous, clastizoichnic. SL0143. Britrocks S34629. 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: | 327.72 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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