| P number: | P553057 |
|---|---|
| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, typical sample from working face. Clatteringwell Quarry. Fife Region. |
| Description: | A blue-grey and whitish, fine-grained saccharoidal limestone, composed of granular anhedral calcite, varying irregularly in grain from 0.03 to 05 mm and in places showing regular changes in grain over areas which represent fossil structures. Small garnets, 0.05 - 0.15 mm across are common and there are some groups of small oxidized pyrite cubes. Limestone, with garnet, varigrained, zoophasmic, in part granoblastic. SL0231. Britrocks S35470. 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: | 394.90 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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