| P number: | P552970 |
|---|---|
| Caption: | Cornstone. Old Quarry 700 yards south-east of Kilchattan pier. Bute. |
| Description: | A cream-white rock with grey and green mottlings, composed of fragments of dolomite-mudstone of very fine grain, 0.002 mm, in a matrix of quartz grit cemented by abundant fine-grained dolomite. A few largish flakes of brown biotite, and some grains of microcline and crushed quartz are present, Thin veins of calcite cut the rock. Dolomite breccia, arenaceous, taxichnic. SL0228. Britrocks S35155. 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: | 348.81 KB; 1000 x 750 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 198 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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