BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S18392; COLLNO1646;
Sample Donor Clough, C.T.
Rock name 'Original entry: Pilotaxitic Andesite Very Fine-Grained Chilled Basalt Agm'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Chilled basalt. Mapped as small offshoot from Dundonald Castle Sill outcrop, which may really represent a teschenite sill and a theralitic sill, cf. S 18390 - 18391
Locality details W of burn, 700 ft SSE of Lawrieston
50k map sheet Kilmarnock (22)

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Map reference NS 3688 3393
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S18392

Cross Polarized, S18392

Plane Polarized, S18392

Plane Polarized, S18392