P number: | P553038 |
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Caption: | Paludina limestone. Coast section, 800 yards north of school at Elgol, Skye. Skye (Inverness). |
Description: | A dark grey, compact, structureless rock composed of a carbonate-clay groundmass in which the carbonate granules are about 0.002 mm across. In this, small grams of oxidized pyrite, quartz, and carbonaceous shreds are scattered in accessory proportions. Limestone, luteous, pelitomorphic, microclastizoichnic. SL0251. Britrocks S35351. 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: | 331.91 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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