Barite, 5488


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Description

Heavy cluster of thin opaque white plates of barite interesecting one another on a base of gray metallic cubic galena. Many blades have terminations covered with small black spherules of manganese oxide.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Perkiomen, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists