P number: | P552611 |
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Caption: | Limestone, Sandend Group. Parkmore Quarry, 0.75 mile north-east of Dufftown Banff. |
Description: | Pale grey crystalline limestone, with veins of coarse white, curvedly twinned calcite. Composed of sutured and locally granulitized grains of calcite with close curved twinning, 0.5-2 mm grain, traversed by lines of granulation. Quartz, muscovite and opaque, black, white and yellow granules are accessory. Limestone with quartz, coarse-grained, granoblastic, strained. SL0070. Britrocks S34510. Magnification x40. Light XPL. |
Date taken: | 21/01/2004 |
Photographer: | Sutherland, A. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
Additional information: | Description from: Limestones of Scotland: chemical analyses and petrography. Edinburgh : HMSO, 1956. |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 392.54 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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