| P number: | P553098 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, 9-12 feet above base of quarry face.Chapel Limestone Quarry, about 2 miles north-west of Kirkcaldy. Fife Region. |
| Description: | Compact grey limestone permeated with and containing compact aggregates of greenish-yellow structureless clay and also some microcrystalline greenish-white aggregates. The limestone is composed of granular calcite of 0.1 mm grain-size and over, with occasional relict organic structures of which the most conspicuous are foraminifera, within the chambers of which the calcite is coarsely recrystallized. Spines and occasional crinoid ossicles are also obvious. Masses of an almost opaque, finely divided clay aggregate are abundant in patches. Garnet is locally developed in dodecahedra and in irregular grains or aggregates up to 0.2 mm across and the microcrystalline greenish aggregate seen in hand specimen is largely grossular. No datolite was found. Limestone with calcsilicates, varigrained, zoophasmic, in part granoblastic. SL0212. Britrocks S35902. 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: | 324.17 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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