BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E18960
Sample Donor Not entered
Rock name Schist. 'Original entry: Phyllite.'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Fine-grained tuff occuring in highest beds of blackbrook series, formerly worked as the Charley Forest or Whittle Hill Hone stone. Phyllite altered acid ash.
Locality details Old Quarry, (now disused). Whittlie Hill, Charley Forest, Charnwood.
50k map sheet Coalville (155)

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Map reference SK
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E18960

Cross Polarized, E18960

Plane Polarized, E18960

Plane Polarized, E18960