BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E10881; COLLNO282;
Sample Donor Blake,Professor
Rock name 'Original entry: Thermally Altered Mica-Quartz-Schist'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Palaeozoic Intrusions. See Mem.Geol.of Anglesey.cf.p.519. A Pen-Zone mica schist, but seems thermally altered by dolerite dyke
Locality details Rock next to intrusive dyke, cutting of Berw-uchaf
50k map sheet Caernarfon (105)

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Map reference SH 465 712
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E10881

Cross Polarized, E10881

Plane Polarized, E10881

Plane Polarized, E10881