| P number: | P553034 |
|---|---|
| Caption: | Limestone. Roadside 550 - 650 yards south-west of Cill Chriosd (Kilchrist) Church. Skye (Inverness). |
| Description: | A grey, fine-grained saccharoidal limestone. In thin section shows patchily varying grain, being mostly of grain-size 0.05 - 0.2 mm, but in places 0.01 mm or less and elsewhere of coarse grain up to 1.0 mm. Associated with the coarser carbonate are small areas of microcrystalline aggregate consisting of clear grains of carbonate and dark finely granular calcsilicates which include pyroxene and tremolite. Curved areas of coarser grain than the groundmass represent shell fragments. Limestone with calcsilicates, varigrained, zoophasmic. SL0249. Britrocks S35349. 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: | 352.35 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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