Garnet, 2462


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Description

Granitic rock fragment with one surface covered with a layer of small intergrown black dodecahedral melanite crystals. Melanite is a black variety of andradite garnet.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists