| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Calcite (contact-twinned crystals) |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 77401 |
| Mineral: | Calcite (contact-twinned crystals) |
| Locality: | Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey |
| Description: | Lustrous transparent colorless calcite crystals on brown-green basalt. The calcite crystals are stubby hexagonal form with rhombohedral terminations and the calcite crystals are contact-twinned on the {01*8} plane. (Rare twin habit for Millington.) Collected in 1997. |
| Overall Size: | 14x8.5x5 cm |
| Crystals: | 4-12 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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