BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E3039
Sample Donor Rhodes,J.(Senior)
Rock name 'Original entry: Chalk With Phosphates.'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Totternhoe Stone, Phosphatic horizon bare of lower grey chalk.
Locality details Totternhoe Limeworks
50k map sheet Leighton Buzzard (220)

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Map reference SP 980 224
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E3039

Cross Polarized, E3039

Plane Polarized, E3039

Plane Polarized, E3039