BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S14424
Sample Donor Maufe, H.B.
Rock name 'Original entry: Porphyrite Or Malchite'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Dyke in Ben Nevis Outer Granite. Loc. 84a, V. 682
Locality details Ben Nevis path, 0.875 mile E by S of Glen Nevis House
50k map sheet Ben Nevis (53)

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Map reference NN 1421 7185
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S14424

Cross Polarized, S14424

Plane Polarized, S14424

Plane Polarized, S14424