BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S47464; S47464/A;
Sample Donor Elliot,R.W.
Rock name 'Original entry: Analcime-Bearing Ophitic Olivine Basalt (Jedburgh Type)To Trachybasalt'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Analcime-bearing ophitic olivine basalt (Jedburgh type)to trachybasalt, felspar phyric basalt, lava or sill, Kershopefoot basalt, Lower Carboniferous
Locality details Kershope Burn, 3.5 miles E 10 deg S of square, Newcastleton
50k map sheet Langholm (11)

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Map reference NY 530 860
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S47464

Cross Polarized, S47464

Plane Polarized, S47464

Plane Polarized, S47464


S47464/A

Cross Polarized, S47464/A

Plane Polarized, S47464/A

Plane Polarized, S47464/A