BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S73411; COLLNONX1252;
Sample Donor Rock,N.M.S.
Rock name Andesite.
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Thick Porphyrite body inside Criffel contact aureole ?=S22986. Lower Devonian- minor intrusion in Silurian greywacke
Locality details In burn above Whitehills Farm
50k map sheet Dalbeattie (5E)

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Map reference NX 7815 5634
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S73411

Cross Polarized, S73411

Plane Polarized, S73411

Plane Polarized, S73411