BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E18011
Sample Donor Eastwood,T.
Rock name 'Original entry: Albitized Pyroxene Andesite'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Spec. from near contact of "Blue Hole" diabase and the quartz-felspar rock.From the North side of quarry. Caldecote Volcanic Series.See County Mem. Pp.7-8. COLLNO spample no.2
Locality details "Blue Hole",Old Qy., 330yds.N.E.of junc.of Hartshill-Chapel End-Nuneaton roads. Tuttle Hill, Nuneaton
50k map sheet Coventry (169)

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Map reference SP 943 933
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E18011

Cross Polarized, E18011

Plane Polarized, E18011

Plane Polarized, E18011