BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E38928
Sample Donor Beer,K.E.
Rock name 'Original entry: Contact Altered Chert With Wollastonite Bearing Quartz Calcite Vein'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Chert from ? Verian series. ? M. Devonian.
Locality details Road bank at lane junction, E. of Tubb's Mill, 1940 Yds. at 340 deg. from Caerhays Castle.
50k map sheet Mevagissey (353)

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Map reference SW 9650 4326
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E38928

Cross Polarized, E38928

Plane Polarized, E38928

Plane Polarized, E38928