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Calcite on Prehnite from Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

 
Calcite on Prehnite from Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Calcite on Prehnite from Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Calcite on Prehnite from Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Calcite on Prehnite from Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Calcite on Prehnite from Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Photo below under shortwave ultraviolet illumination:
Calcite on Prehnite from Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

DESCRIPTION:No. 63548
Mineral:Calcite on Prehnite
Locality:Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Description:Lustrous transparent golden-yellow scalenohedral calcite crystals to 15 mm on translucent pale-green prehnite crystal crusts over gray basalt. The calcite crystals have scale-like growth patterns on the faces and fluoresce white under SW UV illumination. Ex. Mort Metersky collection, collected in 1984
Overall Size:4x3x2.5 cm
Crystals:0.1-15.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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