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Description: | Thin sections of Torridonian sediments, including material from:
-Toscaig, Applecross (inc, spectacular heavy mineral layers)
-Diabaig, Loch Torridon
-Achiltibuie (inc. nice phosphatic concretions)
-Drumfearn, Skye
-Ardnameacan, Skye (inc. limestone)
No hand specimens, but good localities on slides would allow more to be collected.
Also includes:
- accompanying photographs and field notebook
- coal ball with spherulitic quartz from Stanley, [Co. Durham]
- Lower Estuarine jet from between Blea Wyke and Park Stele [N. Yorks]
- silicified gastropods from Cornbrash
- belemnite in jet from Whitby. Very old label no. 683. May be figured.
Donated by Geoff Hancock, son-in-law of the collector, the late Prof. J.W. Hemingway of Newcastle and Leeds universities. | Subjects: | Geology; Palaeontology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Donated by Geoff Hancock, son-in-law of the collector, the late Prof. J.W. Hemingway of Newcastle and Leeds universities. | Identifier: | H-573 |
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