BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S21415; COLLNOT52;
Sample Donor Eyles,V.A.
Rock name 'Original entry: Monchiquitic Analcime Basalt Or Monchiquite With Diopside Xenocryst Agm'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Block of olivine-basalt with large green crystal nodule - cognate xenocrysts in augite monchiquite in agglomerate. Ayrshire Memoir, p. 288
Locality details 250 yds SE of Hengmill, E side of Hengmill Volcanic Vent
50k map sheet Kilmarnock (22)

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Map reference NS 4045 3038
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S21415

Cross Polarized, S21415

Plane Polarized, S21415

Plane Polarized, S21415