BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S40320
Sample Donor Road Research Laboratory
Rock name 'Original entry: Biotite-Hornblende Porphyrite'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Road Research Laboratory (Derby Ring Road experiment, July 1953); see Sheet 38, Shira - Clachan tunnel
Locality details Furnace Quarry (52)
50k map sheet Inverarray (37)

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Map reference NN 0280 0010
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S40320

Cross Polarized, S40320

Plane Polarized, S40320

Plane Polarized, S40320