BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S11256
Sample Donor H.D.C
Rock name 'Original entry: Porphyritic Andesite'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments See Surveyor, Vol. XVIII (1905), p. 717 Fig. 45, and Road Making Stones, p. 30. For more from this quarry, see S. 19567-19568 below
Locality details Mount Quarry, Cupar
50k map sheet Perth (48)

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Map reference NO 332 160
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S11256

Cross Polarized, S11256

Plane Polarized, S11256

Plane Polarized, S11256