Barite, 3341


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Description

Large heavy cluster of opaque white bladed barite crystals in large rosette groupings. Terminal ends of many blades have small black spherules, possibly a manganese growth.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Date
1804
Creator
Shepard, Charles Upham, 1804-1886
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Cumberland, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists