| P number: | P552984 |
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| Caption: | White Coral or Hurlet Limestone shore, east of harbour. Fife Region. |
| Description: | A white limestone composed of Lithostrotion. In thin section seen to be composed of corals filled with clear, granular calcite and interstitially packed with fine debris, including shell and crinoid fragments and spines, which is considerably recrystallized. Rhombs of dolomite, probably an ankeritic variety, occur both within the corals and in the interstitial packing. Limestone, dolomitic, fossiliferous: coral limestone, with pelitomorphic, clastizoic mesostasis. S 35241. Middle 3 ft, yellow. A white crystalline dolomite with many cavities. Composed of interfering rhombs of dolomite 0.03 - 0.3 mm across, mostly clear, but turbid in parts which probably represent the fine debris infilling between the corals. Circular outlines marked by a concentration of turbid dust represent coral walls, but no septa are preserved in this way. Dolomite, varigrained, zoophasmic, mosaic. S 35242. Lower 6 ft. or more. A white limestone with rough fracture. Composed of the debris of crinoids, thick and thin molluscan shells, ostracods, polyzoa, spines, occasional corals and foraminifera, embedded in a matrix of very fine-grained calcite which is partially recrystallized. Limestone, pelitomorphic to fine-grained, clastizoic, zoophasmic. SL0237. Britrocks S35240. 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: | 328.14 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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