| P number: | P553105 |
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| Caption: | Charlestown Main Limestone, from base to 3 feet above base of quarry face.Chapel Limestone Quarry, about 2 miles north-west of Kirkcaldy. Fife Region. |
| Description: | Grey limestone with patches of lustreless greenish clay. The rock is composed of slightly recrystallized granular calcite, 0.02 - 0.2 mm, in which crinoid ossicles (not recrystallized), shells and recrystallized ostracods are numerous. There are also several foraminifera whose walls are replaced by garnet. A semi-opaque, white, fibrous aggregate forms a patchy cement and minute garnets occur singly or in aggregates in considerable quantity scattered through the rock. Limestone with garnet, fine-grained, zoichnic. SL0215. Britrocks S35905. 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: | 423.60 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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