BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S23845; COLLNOE4218;
Sample Donor Macgregor,A.G.
Rock name 'Original entry: Fine-Grained Acid Tholeiitic Quartz-Dolerite (Near Basic Craignurite) Agm'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments 60 ft NW post-Carboniferous Moneyacres Dyke. Same dyke as S. 23846, 24101 - 24105 and a continuation of the Acklington - Hawick dyke; Ayrshire Memoir, pp. 304, 312 (anal.); Plate VII, Fig. 1; Summ Prog 1925, p. 128
Locality details In Lugton Water, 1000 yds SW of Smithy, Lugton
50k map sheet Kilmarnock (22)

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Map reference NS 4054 5241
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S23845

Cross Polarized, S23845

Plane Polarized, S23845

Plane Polarized, S23845