| P number: | P000204 |
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| Old photograph number: | D04333 |
| Caption: | Pitscurry (Pitcaple) Quarry, west face, 1 km. east-north-east of Whiteford. Aberdeenshire. The rock quarried is norite, a type of gabbro. It is used as a hard-rock aggregate for road building or as a general purpose concreting aggregate. |
| Description: | Pitscurry (Pitcaple) Quarry, west face, 1 km. east-north-east of Whiteford. Aberdeenshire. The rock quarried is norite, a type of gabbro. It is used as a hard-rock aggregate for road building or as a general purpose concreting aggregate. Gabbros of Insch Basic Mass (dark) intruded by 10 m. thick sill of tourmaline and beryl-bearing pegmatite (pale pink). Pegmatite body has both subhorizontal and vertical offshoots. Pegmatite is cut and displaced by shear zone dipping gently to right (extreme right of photo). A derelict crane is seen in the centre. Part of a panorama with D04332 and D04334. A sill is a sheet-like body of intrusive igneous rock. Pegmatites are very coarse-grained igneous rocks, the ultra-coarse grain is caused by slow crystallization from a volatile rich melt. |
| Date taken: | Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 BST 1989 |
| Photographer: | McTaggart, F.I. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 372900 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 826720 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 355.15 KB; 1000 x 782 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 207 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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