| P number: | P553089 |
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| Caption: | Burdiehouse Limestone, 'Bottom Bed'. Newbigging Mine. Fife Region. |
| Description: | A dull fawn-grey limestone, containing scattered smooth-surfaced black bodies which include limestone. The rock is composed of very finely divided calcite, locally slightly and irregularly recrystallized, with sparse, small rhombs of dolomite reaching 0.2 mm size. Scattered through the rock are fairly numerous thin shells and shell fragments densely permeated by pyrite: many are of ostracods, either whole or broken and collapsed, and often filled with clear coarsely granular calcite. Quartz grains are small and few. Irregular, short veins of limonitic matter and cracks sealed by calcite are common. Limestone, dolomitic, pelitomorphic, microfossiliferous, microclastizoic. SL0217. Britrocks S35897. 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: | 397.41 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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