BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S34940; MR17475;
Sample Donor Haldane,D.
Rock name 'Original entry: Pyritous Muscovite-Quartz Schist'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Pyritous muscovite-quartz schist
Locality details Burn of Vestavirdin, at S base of Clothister Hill
50k map sheet Central Shetland (128)

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Map reference HU 343 727
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S34940

Cross Polarized, S34940

Plane Polarized, S34940

Plane Polarized, S34940