BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S28910
Sample Donor Haldane,D.
Rock name 'Original entry: Quartz Porphyrite'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Basic igneous dyke; xenocrysts of corroded quartz bordered by cryptopegmatite
Locality details Muckle Roe, Picts' Ness
50k map sheet West Shetland ? (127)

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Map reference HU 300 637
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S28910

Cross Polarized, S28910

Plane Polarized, S28910

Plane Polarized, S28910