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Caption: Burdiehouse Limestone, 'Flooring'. Newbigging Mine. Fife Region.
Description: A dull fawn-grey limestone, composed of very finely granular calcite recrystallized to grains reaching 0.06 mm across. In this matrix are scattered fragments of shells, mainly ostracod, and of cellular organisms and some quartz grains of 0.2 mm grain-size. Granules of pyrite are scarce, being occasionally concentrated in a shell fragment, and limonitic clay is thinly spread through some portions of the rock. The limestone is traversed by narrow and irregular cracks which are sealed by calcite. Limestone, micrograined to pelitomorphic, microfossiliferous, clotted. SL0216. Britrocks S35896. 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
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