BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S12171; COLLNOT3142;
Sample Donor Peach, B.N.; Tait,D.;
Rock name 'Original entry: Olivine Basalt'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Dalmeny type, vesicular (F); Edinburgh Memoir, 1910, pp. 316, 319 and Plate XII, Fig. 5
Locality details Wester Dalmeny, small quarry, at Oil Company's powder magazine
50k map sheet Edinburgh (32)

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Map reference NT 1451 7729
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S12171

Cross Polarized, S12171

Plane Polarized, S12171

Plane Polarized, S12171