Erythrite, 3306


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Description

Dark gray rock fragment with a fracture surface covered with drusy and radiating clusters of tiny pinkish purple acicular erythrite crystals. Another surface of the rock is partially covered with a crust of pinkish earthy erythrite.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Date
1804
Creator
Shepard, Charles Upham, 1804-1886
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Riechelsdorf, Hessen, Germany
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists