| P number: | P552920 |
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| Caption: | Limestone. 300 yards south of Loch of Burraland, Sullom, 4 miles north of Brae, North Maven Shetland Isles. |
| Description: | Composed of strained calcite in grains 0.5-1.5 mm across, traversed by narrow shear zones in which calcite is triturated, and along which muscovite and chlorite are abundant. Yellow tourmaline occurs along thin shear-zones in good prisms, which have been fractured by later movement. Oxidized pyrite occurs mainly in or near shear-lines. Limestone with muscovite-chlorite-schist folia, coarse to medium-grained, granoblastic, foliated. SL0191. Britrocks S34955. 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: | 327.74 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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