BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S3504
Sample Donor Barrow, G.
Rock name 'Original entry: ? Rock'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Crest of granophyre. The quickly cooled top of the dyke that hardens but with a granite porphyry half a mile wide. It is intruded along a faultand has involved the fault rock
Locality details Fealar (crest of granophyre)
50k map sheet Kingussie (64)

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Map reference NO 015 805
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S3504

Cross Polarized, S3504

Plane Polarized, S3504

Plane Polarized, S3504