Albite, 5025


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Description

Large blocky sample of pearly white (though dirty) albite (plagioclase feldspar) with white perthite twinning. Fractured along cleavage planes at nearly 90 degrees.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Date
1804
Creator
Shepard, Charles Upham, 1804-1886
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists