| P number: | P553063 |
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| Caption: | Stinchar Limestone. Kirkdominae Hill, Auchensoul Farm, 2 miles west of Barr. Ayr. |
| Description: | A fine-grained compact, dark grey limestone. Microscopically the rock is a calcilutite (calcite-mudstone) recrystallized so far that the matrix is an admixture of turbid brown carbonate and clear fine-grained calcite, but without the destruction of the numerous fossil remains of Girvanella and ostracods. Scarce fragments of crinoid, polyzoan and shell, possibly brachiopod, are present. Pyrite is scattered in small grains and clots through the rock as an accessory constituent, and there are stylolitic wisps of limonitic clay. Limestone, argillaceous, pelitomorphic, microfossiliferous, zoichnic. SL0267. Britrocks S35505. 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: | 417.50 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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