| P number: | P552676 |
|---|---|
| Caption: | North Greens (No. 2) Limestone. Bents Quarry, 600 yards north of Macbiehill House. Peebles. |
| Description: | Fawn-grey, compact limestone composed of fragments of crinoids, shells and polyzoa in a turbid base partly of granular calcareous debris, partly pelitomorphic calcite. Foraminifera are present and these and polyzoan chambers are occasionally filled with glauconitic mineral aggregate. Pyrite and fossil phosphate are accessory. Thin calcite veins cut the rock. Limestone, fine-grained, clastizoic. SL0023. Britrocks S34544. 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: | 288.22 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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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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