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Caption: Limestone. Glenlia Quarry, near Foyers. Inverness.
Description: A dull, compact, grey, greenish and pinkish-mottled limestone. Composed essentially of calcite, talc-silicates, mica and feldspar, with accessory sphene. The calcite is in grains up to 0.5 mm across. The talc-silicates include zoisite, epidote, pyroxene, pale green tremolite, the total and relative abundance of which vary from place to place. The feldspar is chiefly potash-feldspar and shows microcline twinning occasionally. Some albite is also present. The mica is a brown phlogopite. Limestone with feldspathic calcsilicate folia, foliated, granoschistose. SL0241. Britrocks S35274. 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.
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