Tourmaline, 6256


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Description

Two small rocks with short stout black terminated tourmaline, var. schorl crystals. One specimen is a silvery black mica schist, while the other is a fragment of pegmatite composed of white massive feldspar (albite) and colorless massive quartz.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

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