P number: | P553031 |
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Caption: | Limestone. Torran, Dun Beag. Skye (Inverness). |
Description: | A darkish grey limestone with saccharoidal texture, which shows bedding by alternation of paler and darker grey tints. Composed of a mosaic of grains of carbonate, 0.1 - 0.2 mm across, often elongated in the direction of bedding. Scattered among the carbonate are prismatic sections of a mineral almost wholly replaced by turbid calcite. In one place a relic of the original mineral suggests itself as tremolite. Limestone, medium-grained, grain-foliated. SL0247. Britrocks S35347. 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: | 381.82 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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