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Caption: Gilmerton (No. 1) Limestone, top 3 feet of lower part. Whitfield Limeworks. Peebles.
Description: Grey to dark grey compact limestone composed of round and angular grains of calcite, 0.02 - 0.05 mm across, with a cement of pelitomorphic calcite and clay. Fragments of shell are common, small crinoid columnals scattered, and pieces of phosphate scarce. Small angular quartz grains, granules of pyrite and drops of bitumen are present. Limestone, luteous, fine-grained, clastizoichnic. SL0183. Britrocks S40472. 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.
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