| P number: | P553095 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, 22-23 feet from base of quarry face. Chapel Limestone Quarry, about 2 miles north-west of Kirkcaldy. Fife Region. |
| Description: | Coarse, bluish dolomite mottled with duller, cream-coloured dolomite. The section shows dolomite in crystals up to 1.0 mm in size, mostly of irregular shape, but often showing rhomboidal angles. Interstitial between the grains is a patchy cement of clay aggregate, faintly yellowish-green in places and possessing a moderate birefringence. A little secondary quartz is present and pyrite occurs in small scattered grains. The dolomite usually shows undulose extinction. Dolomite with clay aggregate, medium-grained, uneven mosaic, strained. SL0210. Britrocks S35900. 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: | 330.15 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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