BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number N3086
Sample Donor Krabbendam, Dr Maarten
Rock name Not entered
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Semipelitic gneiss, mica fabric parallel to poorly developed gneissose banding. Medium fine quartz, recrystallized, often in thin lenses or lozenge-shaped aggregates with very good crystallographic preferred orientation. Plagioclase (oligoclase) as l
Locality details Glen Isla
50k map sheet Glen Shee (56W)

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Map reference NO 1883 7100
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


N3086

Cross Polarized, N3086

Plane Polarized, N3086

Plane Polarized, N3086