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Caption: Upper Harelawhill Limestone. Quarry 300 yd. west of Harelawhill. Dumfries.
Description: A dark grey, fine-grained, compact, structureless limestone. Composed of granular calcite (0.02 - 0.06 mm grain-size) with interstitial limonitic and bituminous clay cement. Fragments of shells and black carbonaceous specks are fairly abundant and there is a little pyritic impregnation of shell fragments. Limestone, fine-grained, microfossiliferous, zoophasmic. SL0205. Britrocks S35070. 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.
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