BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number N11910; N11910/b; N11910/c; COLLNOK31;
Sample Donor Kempton, N.
Rock name 'Original entry: Symplectitic Eclogite (Blastomylonite)'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments I composite rock (a) rounded garnets with sheath of ferromagnesian granules and rutile in a coarse quartz ground mass symplectitic eclogite (blastomylonite) (b) Large poikiloblastic garnets associated with symplectitic pyroxene, trails of granules at
Locality details Loch na Faolaig (Loc.11)
50k map sheet Cluanie (72)

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Map reference NG 904 257
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


N11910

Cross Polarized, N11910

Plane Polarized, N11910

Plane Polarized, N11910


N11910/b

Cross Polarized, N11910/b

Plane Polarized, N11910/b

Plane Polarized, N11910/b


N11910/c

Cross Polarized, N11910/c

Plane Polarized, N11910/c

Plane Polarized, N11910/c