| P number: | P553096 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, 12-22 feet above base of quarry face. Chapel Limestone Quarry, about 2 miles north-west of Kirkcaldy. Fife Region. |
| Description: | Grey compact, translucent limestone, with numerous spots of a white fibrous mineral. The rock is composed of granular calcite, of 0.1 - 0.4 mm grain-size, together with larger grains, up to 0.5 mm long, in which the trabecular structure and axial canals of crinoids may be retained. Large plumose aggregates of prismatic and acicular pectolite are numerous. Garnet is uniformly scattered through the rock in small idioblastic crystals up to 0.1 mm diameter, and datolite, in irregular grains, is scarce. Limestone with calcsilicates, varigrained, zoophasmic, diacrystallic, in part granoblastic. SL0211. Britrocks S35901. Magnification x40. Light PPL. |
| 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: | 319.03 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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