| P number: | P519344 |
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| Caption: | Rock specimen of sandstone from Locharbriggs, Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway Region, Scotland. |
| Description: | Strongly coloured red-orange quartz-rich sandstone showing parallel bedding of different grain sizes. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC5854. The stone is made up of individual grains of rounded quartz each with a thin coating of iron oxide which gives the overall orange colour. The rock is relatively pure with some feldspar and mica flakes. Locharbriggs is a 'New Red Sandstone' of Permian age. It has been used extensively and for many important buildings in Scotland e.g. in Glasgow the People's Palace (1898), Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvin Hall, and cladding for the Burrell Museum (1983). Size of specimen: 30x16x4 cm. Munsell colour code and colour 10R5/6, reddish orange. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/2003 |
| Photographer: | Bain, T.S. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | MC5854 |
| X longitude/easting: | 299000 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 581000 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 140.19 KB; 1000 x 775 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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