Calcite, 8696


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Description

Cluster of colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals with dark gray dull galena, on a base of white massive calcite. The galena crystals are in the form of pseudohexagonal tabular contact twins.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Germany
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists