Bitumen, 11914


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Description

Irregular sample of gray granular igneous rock with colorelss massive quartz and bluish white botryoidal chalcedony, covered on this surface with a layer of black mineral pitch that is now hardened.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Vanuxem, Lardner, 1792-1848
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Auvergne,France
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists