BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E11979
Sample Donor Road Board
Rock name 'Original entry: Coarse Ophitic Olivine-Dolerite Alb?'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments MAIN ROCK FRESH AUGITE SERPENTINSIED OLIVINE
Locality details BUXTON QUARRY MINSTERLEY
50k map sheet Welshpool (151)

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Map reference SJ 37 05
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E11979

Cross Polarized, E11979

Plane Polarized, E11979

Plane Polarized, E11979