BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E44776
Sample Donor Worsam,B.C.
Rock name Not entered
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Tonstein 50mm thick, base 100mm below top of a coal seam 0.77m thick, being the middle of three seams exposed at the GNO reference quoted in may 1971 provisionally correlated with the p26. Pellety appearance.
Locality details Willesley Quarry, 900m north and 25 degrees west of Hill Farm, Willesley.
50k map sheet Coalville (155)

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Map reference SK 3275 1560
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E44776

Cross Polarized, E44776

Plane Polarized, E44776

Plane Polarized, E44776