BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S23846; COLLNOE4222;
Sample Donor Macgregor,A.G.
Rock name 'Original entry: Fine-Grained Acid Tholeiitic Quartz-Dolerite (Near Basic Craignurite) Agm'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments 50 ft NW post-Carboniferous Moneyacres Dyke. Same dyke as S. 23845, 24101 - 24105 and a continuation of the Acklington - Hawick dyke
Locality details Stream, 70 yds S of Blaeloch
50k map sheet Kilmarnock (22)

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Map reference NS 3976 5308
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S23846

Cross Polarized, S23846

Plane Polarized, S23846

Plane Polarized, S23846