| P number: | P552977 |
|---|---|
| Caption: | Hosie Limestone' (?). St. Monans shore east of harbour. Fife Region. |
| Description: | A dull brownish-grey fine-grained dolomite with many small cavities. The section shows numerous dolomitized fossil relics including shell and crinoid fragments, small gastropod shells, round bodies and scarce fragments of ostracods and possibly of polyzoa, in a matrix of fine debris which has been converted to dolomite of grain-size about 0.01 mm. Ferriferous dolomite of grain up to 0.2 mm occurs in irregular small patches. Pyrite impregnates some of the crinoids, gastropods and other shell fragments. Ferriferous dolomite, micrograined, clastizoic, taxichnic SL0233. Britrocks S35236. 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. |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 420.55 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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