BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S24105; COLLNOE4232;
Sample Donor Macgregor,A.G.
Rock name 'Original entry: Fine-Grained Acid Quartz-Dolerite With Granular Augite Agm'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Bigt NW post-Carboniferous Moneyacres Dyke. Same dyke as S. 23845 - 23846, 24101 - 24104 and a continuation of the Acklington - Hawick dyke; Ayrshire Memoir, pp. 304, 305, 312 (anal.); Plate VII, Fig. 2; Summ Prog 1925, p. 128
Locality details Hareshaw Quarry, 600 yds ESE of Hareshaw and 2 miles E of Fenwick
50k map sheet Kilmarnock (22)

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Map reference NS 4427 4302
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S24105

Cross Polarized, S24105

Plane Polarized, S24105

Plane Polarized, S24105