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P number: P521466
Caption: Rock specimen of coral limestone. Aberlady Bay, 3 miles north-east of Longniddry, Haddingtonshire, Scotland.
Description: The sample is a vivid orange colour and comprises a mass of intergrown individual thin tubular structures. The rock is a limestone consisting almost entirely of fossil coral material. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number EMC2674. This texture could be described as 'vermicular' which means 'worm-like', as the intergrown coral tubes resemble spaghetti. Fossil corals can generally be divided into two groups, the solitary corals and colonial corals. This sample is an example of the latter, with each tube structure representing an individual organism or polyp. Corals were common in Scotland during the Carboniferous period, when the seas were warm and the climate was tropical.
Date taken: 01/12/2002
Photographer: McTaggart, F.I.
Associate: T.S. Bain
Copyright statement: NERC
Additional information: EMC2674
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 314.68 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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