BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S6046; S6046/a;
Sample Donor Geikie,A.
Rock name 'Original entry: Spotted Calc-Silicate Hornfels F'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Edinburgh Memoir, 1910, p. 315 and Plate X, Fig. 3
Locality details i Barnton Railway cutting, near Edinburgh
50k map sheet Edinburgh (32)

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Map reference NT 2006 7546
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S6046

Cross Polarized, S6046

Plane Polarized, S6046

Plane Polarized, S6046


S6046/a

Cross Polarized, S6046/a

Plane Polarized, S6046/a

Plane Polarized, S6046/a