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Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

 
Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz from Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado

DESCRIPTION:No. 76598
Mineral:Microcline, Albite and Smoky Quartz
Locality:Sentinel Rock, west of Bear Creek Canyon, 5.5 km S of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
Description:Blocky tan-colored microcline crystals to 22 mm intermixed with lustrous medium-smoky quartz crystals to 32 mm. Most of the microcline crystals have overgrowth of lustrous translucent colorless albite crystals to 1 mm. One quartz crystal is chipped. Collected ca. 1975
Overall Size:10.5x9x4 cm
Crystals:0.5-32.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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