BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E2499
Sample Donor Not entered
Rock name Not entered
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments quartz porphyry [ microgranulitic of ? Crystallised rock ]: groundmass minute microgranulitic to cryptocrystalline with quartz, feldspar and muscovite; it is crushed and foliated. Chief phenocrysts with groundmass inclusions and edges on which the gr
Locality details Great Laxey Mine 255fms level 490yds N of Dumbrell's shaft.: elvan (microgranite)
50k map sheet Isle of Man (46)

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Map reference SC 43176 86367
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E2499

Cross Polarized, E2499

Plane Polarized, E2499

Plane Polarized, E2499