BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S30495
Sample Donor Tait,D.
Rock name Not entered
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Large grey-green, part of upper non-porph layer of St Leonard's Sill
Locality details Corstorphine Drain excavation 1932, on W side of The Stank near W end of Dovecot Road
50k map sheet Edinburgh (32)

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Map reference NT 1975 7232
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S30495

Cross Polarized, S30495

Plane Polarized, S30495

Plane Polarized, S30495