BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E21852
Sample Donor Shannon,W.G.
Rock name 'Original entry: Quartz Sanidine Porphyry [Or ? Rhyolite] Spherulitic Groundmass'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Spherulitic quartz orthophyre. No rock. Pebbles from Permian breccias.
Locality details Watcombe.
50k map sheet Newton Abbot (339)

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Map reference SX 921 673
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E21852

Cross Polarized, E21852

Plane Polarized, E21852

Plane Polarized, E21852