| P number: | P553037 |
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| Caption: | Lower Lias limestone. Just north of crossing of the Broadford-Heast road over the Allt a'choire, Skye. Skye (Inverness). |
| Description: | A dull grey, compact limestone containing veins of brownish-grey carbonate which are cut by veins of white carbonate. The thin section shows numerous fragments of shell, around 0.2 mm long and of occasionally recognizable echinodermal plates, in a turbid groundmass of finely divided calcite through which angular quartz grains are scattered. Stylolitic films of dark clay are present. Fragments of carbonaceous matter, scarce grains of zircon and a little pyrite are present. Limestone, luteous, micrograined, microclastizoic. SL0250. Britrocks S35350. 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: | 397.46 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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