Sulfur, 4219


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Description

Many broken crystals of golden yellow translucent sulfur emanating from a base of white radial fibrous celestite. There is also a cluster of long slender colorless prismatic celestite with fine terminations. There are also numerous small rounded radiating aggregates of tiny colorless calcite crystals scattered across the specimen.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists