| P number: | P552809 |
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| Caption: | Limestone. Old Quarry, one-third mile north of Ardlethen. Aberdeen. |
| Description: | Pale grey, fine-grained limestone with some thin calcite veins. Composed of a matrix of granular calcite (0.2 - 0.4 mm grain-size) containing a large number of phlogopite flakes and grains of diopside. The latter has a salite (001) cleavage in addition to the usual prismatic cleavage. The phlogopite flakes tend to be orientated parallel to one direction. Calcite-diopside-phlogopite rock, fine-grained, granoblastic. SL0146. Britrocks S34648. 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 |
| Size: | 409.19 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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