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Halite from Soda Lake, 103 km east of San Luis Obispo, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California

 
DESCRIPTION:No. 82415
Mineral:Halite
Locality:Soda Lake, 103 km east of San Luis Obispo, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California
Description:Lustrous transparent-to-translucent colorless cubic halite crystals on an earlier generation of smaller halite crystals. This halite specimen is not from the common Searles Lake deposit, but from the little-collected Soda Dry Lake locality. Fluoresces under LW and SW ultraviolet illumination. Ex. Miller collection T3646b; ex. Betts #77602; originally acquired in August 1998 from Al Rose (Fallbrook, Ca.)
Overall Size:18x12x10 mm
Crystals:1-8 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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