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Description: | Specimens include:
Carbonaceous rocks: examples of joints in coal, lignite, black band ironstone formation, rounded coal nodule, anthracite.
Limestones/hardgrounds: coral reef sample, crinoidal limestone, fossil leaves, algal limestones (inc. oolitic), tufa-encrusted twigs, chalk.
Cherts/bauxites: kaolin, bauxitic fireclay, orange bauxite, rhynie chert, cement stone. 10 specimens.
Clastic sediments: mudstone (some with barnacles), red sandstone, gastropods in limestone, breccia, greensand, Miocene banded sandstone, polished puddingstone, conglomerates, sand.
Mostly from Scotland and England. Found in the Hunterian Museum. Uncatalogued material from old teaching collections. | Subjects: | Geology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Found in the Hunterian Museum. Uncatalogued material from old teaching collections. | Identifier: | H-253 |
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