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Calcite (twinned crystals) on pseudomorphs after Calcite from Weldon's Stone Quarry, Scotch Plains, Somerset County, New Jersey

 
Calcite (twinned crystals) on pseudomorphs after Calcite from Weldon's Stone Quarry, Scotch Plains, Somerset County, New Jersey

Calcite (twinned crystals) on pseudomorphs after Calcite from Weldon's Stone Quarry, Scotch Plains, Somerset County, New Jersey

Calcite (twinned crystals) on pseudomorphs after Calcite from Weldon's Stone Quarry, Scotch Plains, Somerset County, New Jersey

Calcite (twinned crystals) on pseudomorphs after Calcite from Weldon's Stone Quarry, Scotch Plains, Somerset County, New Jersey

DESCRIPTION:No. 64841
Mineral:Calcite (twinned crystals) on pseudomorphs after Calcite
Locality:Weldon's Stone Quarry, Scotch Plains, Somerset County, New Jersey
Description:Transparent gray-brown complex calcite crystals with waxy surface luster on pseudomorphs after scalenohedral calcite crystals to 20 mm. The mineral that formed the pseudomorphs is unidentified and may be white stilbite. The calcite crystals are twinned. Ex. St. Lawrence University Collection; ex. Howard E. Moore (1926-2011); originally acquired ca. 1934
Overall Size:7x5.5x4 cm
Crystals:0.5-20.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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