BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number E24488; MR18583;
Sample Donor Not entered
Rock name Lime-Oncolite. 'Original entry: Creamy Coloured Oolitic Fossiliferous Limestone. Great Oolite Series. Jurassic'
Stratigraphy Bathonian. Great Oolite Group.
Comments Creamy coloured Oolitic fossiliferous Limestone. Great Oolite Series. Jurassic,Great Oolite Seties,Jurassic,Collected byG H Collins C112
Locality details Gloucester Road Quarry,Gloucester Road Qry. 1500 yd S 60 deg W of Bagendon Church,
50k map sheet Cirencester (235)

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Map reference SP 000 060
Year collected 1950 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


E24488

Cross Polarized, E24488

Plane Polarized, E24488

Plane Polarized, E24488