| P number: | P552856 |
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| Caption: | Limestone. Shinness Quarry, the Airde, near Lairg. Sutherland. |
| Description: | Anhedral grains of calcite up to 5.0 mm in width are seen to interlock with one another, with diopside which forms thick prisms imperfectly developed up to 6 mm in length. Tremolite is often present as small blades in the diopside and locally forms large prisms with replacing relations to the associated diopside. Limestone with diopside and tremolite, coarse-grained, porphyroblastic. S 34853. White crystalline limestone. Composed of a mosaic of interlocking grains of calcite up to 6.0 mm across. Tremolite and phlogopite are present in only accessory proportions and rarely reach more than 1.0 mm in length. They lie along the interfaces of calcite grains and are only rarely enclosed in calcite. Apatite and sphene are accessory. Limestone with phlogopite, coarse-grained, foliated. SL0169. Britrocks S34852. 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: | 274.88 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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