Quartz, 4534


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Description

Sample of massive and crystalline white translucent quartz. The crystals are small stout prismatic hexagonal anad have single pyramidal terminations. The sample is stained dark red by iron, and a coating of tiny botryoidal hematite covers most of the crystals.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

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