Quartz, 4662


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Description

Broken sample of brick red dull chalcedony, variety jasper (a microcrystalline form of quartz). The sample is broken on almost all sides exhibiting conchoidal fracture. Faint dendritic growths of manganese oxide are present.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Date
1804
Creator
Brumby, Richard Trapier, 1804-1875
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Massachusetts, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists