BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S48294
Sample Donor Elliot,R.W.
Rock name 'Original entry: Fine-Grained Vesicular Olivine Basalt (?Altered Jedburgh Type)'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Fine-grained vesicular olivine basalt (?altered jedburgh type), top bench of quarrry, vesicular basalt near top of ?sill or lava, (Kershopefoot basalt ?lava, Lower Carboniferous)
Locality details Quarry on N bank at Kershope Bridge, c. 1.5 miles 5 deg E of S of Blinkbonny
50k map sheet Langholm (11)

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Map reference NY 501 833
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S48294

Cross Polarized, S48294

Plane Polarized, S48294

Plane Polarized, S48294