| P number: | P552964 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, worked portion. North end of West Quarry, Charlestown, 3 miles south-west of Dunfermline. Fife Region. |
| Description: | A dull, compact brownish-grey limestone. Calcite occurs filling joints. Composed of a matrix of brown clay and calcite mud filled with a calcite sand, flattened fragments of thin shells and fragments of crinoids and of shelly crinoidal limestone which has been soft when incorporated in the deposit. These limestone fragments have probably been derived from layers of clay-free calcareous debris one of which is seen in the section. In the most clayey portion of the section there are stylolitic films of carbonaceous or bituminous matter. Larger fragments of crinoid and coral are scattered in the fine-grained argillaceous limestone. Limestone, argillaceous, pelitomorphic, clastizoic, bedded. SL0225. Britrocks S35083. 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: | 395.37 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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