BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number N3092
Sample Donor Krabbendam, Dr Maarten
Rock name Not entered
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Very coarse pegmatitic vein (found at contact gneiss/porphyry) without mica fabric, but with remnants of gneissose banding. Coarse, zoned, subhedral plagioclase (oligoclase), strained and recrystallized quartz. Large blasts of muscovite, less and fin
Locality details Long How
50k map sheet Glen Shee (56W)

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Map reference NO 1878 7126
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


N3092

Cross Polarized, N3092

Plane Polarized, N3092

Plane Polarized, N3092