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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 XPL.
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
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