BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S12187; COLLNOT3194;
Sample Donor Peach, B.N.; Tait,D.;
Rock name 'Original entry: Quartz Hypersthene Dolerite F'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments No 2 top of quarry; Edinburgh Memoir, 1910, p. 303 and Plate IX, Fig. 5
Locality details North Queensferry, quarry at higher level than houses, S of deep quarry
50k map sheet Edinburgh (32)

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Map reference NT 1338 8028
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S12187

Cross Polarized, S12187

Plane Polarized, S12187

Plane Polarized, S12187