| P number: | P553028 |
|---|---|
| Caption: | Limestone. Torran, end of side road to Dun Beag. Skye (Inverness). |
| Description: | A banded grey and white limestone. Composed essentially of fine, often elongated grains of carbonate, 0.5 - 0.3 mm across, the grey band being finer-grained than the white. There is an accessory proportion of small equidimensional grains of forsterite. Crushed rock dissolved in 1: 1 cold HCl gives a small residue showing also dolomite, diopside, tremolite and muscovite or talc aggregate. Limestone, medium-grained, grain-foliated, granoschistose. SL0246. Britrocks S35346. 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: | 313.15 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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