BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S23441
Sample Donor Eyles,V.A.
Rock name 'Original entry: Decomposed Monchiquite'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Decomposed monchiquite, matrix of agglomerate vent (large and most northerly of 3 adjacent ones)
Locality details Left bank of River Ayr 1200 yards downstream from Tarholm
50k map sheet Ayr (14)

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Map reference NS 396 228
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S23441

Cross Polarized, S23441

Plane Polarized, S23441

Plane Polarized, S23441