Margarodite, 11101


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Description

Two specimens of white and silvery muscovite mica crystals on a white to tan base of porcelaneous material with a pearly and phyllitic luster - this is the margarodite (a combination of muscovite and paragonite). A massive purple mineral is also present on the larger specimen.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists