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Calcite including twinned crystals from Rockway Quarry, 4.5 km ESE of Colonial Heights, Sullivan County, Tennessee

 
Calcite including twinned crystals from Rockway Quarry, 4.5 km ESE of Colonial Heights, Sullivan County, Tennessee

Calcite including twinned crystals from Rockway Quarry, 4.5 km ESE of Colonial Heights, Sullivan County, Tennessee

Calcite including twinned crystals from Rockway Quarry, 4.5 km ESE of Colonial Heights, Sullivan County, Tennessee

DESCRIPTION:No. 76148
Mineral:Calcite including twinned crystals
Locality:Rockway Quarry, 4.5 km ESE of Colonial Heights, Sullivan County, Tennessee
Description:Lustrous transparent colorless calcite crystals coating one face of gray limestone. The calcite crystals are scalenohedral form with rhombohedral termination faces and one pair of crystals are butterfly-twinned.
Overall Size:17x14x10 mm
Crystals:micro to 1.5 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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