BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S8159
Sample Donor Barrow, G.
Rock name 'Original entry: Garnet-Hornblende Schist'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Diopside and a mineral ?feldspar (metamorphic rock) See Memoir, pp. 16, 68
Locality details E of the big cairn, Glen Muick
50k map sheet Balmoral (65)

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Map reference NO 38 94
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S8159

Cross Polarized, S8159

Plane Polarized, S8159

Plane Polarized, S8159