BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E52245; MR35328; COLLNOGG631;
Sample Donor Green,G.W.
Rock name 'Original entry: Calcareous Tuff With Ooliths?'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments 4.3 m. below top of bed B7. Top = 4 m. below base of Spring Cove Basaltic Lava. Birnbeck Limestone, carboniferous limestone. Cross bedded. oolitic. bioclastic limestone originally.
Locality details Spring Cove Beach Cliffs, Avon. 190 m. at 40 deg. from SE. end of Birnbeck Pier. Weston-Super-Mare.
50k map sheet Weston super Mare (279)

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Map reference ST 3082 6247
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E52245

Cross Polarized, E52245

Plane Polarized, E52245

Plane Polarized, E52245