BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S15996
Sample Donor Tait,D.
Rock name 'Original entry: Leidleite Pitchstone'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Sill; cores; Summ Prog 1912, pp. 68-69; Memoir, pp. 19, 281-282, 287, anal. P. 263
Locality details 0.25 mile NE of cairn on Mullach Glac an t-Sneachda, nearly 2 miles SSW of Pennyghael
50k map sheet Mull (44)

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Map reference NM 5021 2337
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S15996

Cross Polarized, S15996

Plane Polarized, S15996

Plane Polarized, S15996