Calcite, 8436

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Description

Specimen is a fragment of a stalagmite with at least ten layers of fibrous calcite (satin spar). Microcrystalline calcite also forms a coating on a broken layer.

Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy

Details

Date
1804
Creator
Brumby, Richard Trapier, 1804-1875
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Howes Cave, Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists