|
Date: |
|
Description: | Miscellaneous Arran rocks, with thin sections:
a) A valve with encrusted serpulids, barnacles and mussels. Collected from the strand line on beach Rudha Arigh Bheirg, Thundergay.
b) Dalradian pelites and psammites. From the shore south of Imachar NR 864 401.
c) Dalradian white pelite with large pyrite porphyroblasts. From the coast south west of Rudha Arigh Bheirg NR884 477.
d) Loose block of calcrete-replaced Dalradian rock from 'Hutton's Unconformity'.
e) Aeolian sandstone; in situ, Permian period. From the Corrie shore NS02584301.
f) Sandstone (brown), poorly sorted, with burrow. From the beach 100m NNE of Navigation beacon, North Glen Sannox NR01884587.
g) Sphalerite in black shale. From north bank of North Sannox Burn, (about 4m east of rowan tree), just east of junction with Allt Dornach NR47574691. In situ, Highland Border Complex.
h) White Triassic quartz arenite with spheroidal poikilotopic calcite cement. Kildonan NS02282092.
i) Smoky quartz and feldspar broken crystal fragments. From Mullach Buidhe.
j) Loose specimen of drusy granite. From Coire Lan.
k) Mafic dyke showing chilled margins. Loose block from 15cm thick dyke cutting Westphalian mudstones, in front of Corrie Stores, Corrie.
l) Altered basalt with red euhedral pseudomorphs after olivine, shore 20-40m north of the school, Corrie.
m) Sandstone with reduction spots. From c.20cm below junction with Permian stratum. From the Corrie shore.
Collected by J.W. Failthfull. | Subjects: | Geology; Zoology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Collected by J.W. Failthfull. | Identifier: | H-596 |
|
|