P number: | P552817 |
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Caption: | Patna Limestone. Cairnshalloch Limeworks, 800 yards south-south-west of Patna. Ayr. |
Description: | Compact buff-grey limestone with small crinoid fragments. Composed of a fine-grained base of granular carbonate (0.03 mm average grain-size) containing small, partly recrystallized organic debris. Opaque material occurs as grains of pyrite, pyritic replacement of minute fossils, and black biturninous or carbonaceous specks disseminated through the rock. Brownish calcareous clay is locally common. The organic remains include crinoid plates and many and various foraminifera, polyzoan fragments, brachiopod spines and thin-walled shells. Limestone, fine-grained, microfossiliferous, clastixoic. SL0149. Britrocks S34651(a). 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. 10 minutes in Logwood stain. |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 237.11 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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