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Description: | Lower Carboniferous basalts, altered with calcite and zeolites (includes analcime, stilbite).
Clyde plateau basalts (porphytic basalts with phenocrysts of plagioclase). Also calcite, stilbite, analcitye, laumonite, thomsonite, dolerite, malachite and chlorite. Several very large specimens.
Obtained from a Balfour Beatty construction site, Port Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland.
Locality described in 'Gribble, C.D. et al 'Proceedings of the Glasgow Geological Society' (1982). Collected on various occasions by K. Downs-Rose, N.M. Halden, A.F. Park, and G.Durant. | Subjects: | Geology; | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Collected on various occasions by K. Downs-Rose, N.M. Halden, A.F. Park, and G.Durant. | Identifier: | H-46 |
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