| P number: | P553103 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, 3-6 feet above base of quarry face.Chapel Limestone Quarry, about 2 miles north-west of Kirkcaldy. Fife Region. |
| Description: | Dark grey limestone with grey spots, passing to yellowish-grey overall with black streaks and a pale green mineral filling spaces lined with black material. The dark part is well crystallized to irregular granular calcite of varying size and uniformly permeated by brown dust or stain. This portion still contains crinoid ossicles and outlines of shells in both cases recrystallized, though the former may still be of one piece and retain trabecular structure. The paler coloured limestone is little different, except in smaller grain-size and absence of brown coloration in the calcite. Garnet (grossular) is well distributed throughout the whole rock. Only a small quantity of fine-grained, almost opaque, aggregate is present in the section. Limestone with garnet, varigrained, zoophasmic. SL0214. Britrocks S35904. 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: | 410.29 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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