| P number: | P553052 |
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| Caption: | Cornstone. Right bank of Poldownie Burn, 600 yards east-north-east of Glenmuirshaw. Ayr. |
| Description: | A pale purplish, compact limestone containing marly red spots and nests of white, more coarsely crystalline, calcite. The rock is composed of finely granular calcite of grain-size 0.02 - 0.05 mm. Short films of clay are present but scarce. The grain of the rock increases over small areas and coarse-grained calcite occurs along indefinite nodose channels. Quartz is sparsely distributed as single and composite grains. Limestone, subarenaceous, fine-grained, granular. SL0257. Britrocks S35454. 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: | 284.36 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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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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