| P number: | P553020 |
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| Caption: | Limestone. Glenlia Quarry, near Foyers. Inverness. |
| Description: | A dull, compact, grey, greenish and pinkish-mottled limestone. Composed essentially of calcite, talc-silicates, mica and feldspar, with accessory sphene. The calcite is in grains up to 0.5 mm across. The talc-silicates include zoisite, epidote, pyroxene, pale green tremolite, the total and relative abundance of which vary from place to place. The feldspar is chiefly potash-feldspar and shows microcline twinning occasionally. Some albite is also present. The mica is a brown phlogopite. Limestone with feldspathic calcsilicate folia, foliated, granoschistose. SL0241. Britrocks S35274. Magnification x40. Light PPL. |
| 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: | 376.19 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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