BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S7842; COLLNORYF1793;
Sample Donor Peach, C.W.
Rock name 'Original entry: Quartz-Garnet-Pyroxene Gneiss'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Garnet rock, Archaean; see Geol. Cent. Suth., p. 83
Locality details At burn N of Loch Beannach, NW of Little Assynt
50k map sheet Lochinver (107)

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Map reference NC 134 272
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S7842

Cross Polarized, S7842

Plane Polarized, S7842

Plane Polarized, S7842