Calcite, 8639


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Description

Large broken section of a thick calcareous stalactite. Form has a solid core of white and pale orange banded calcite. Outer margin is up to 2 cm thick layer of banded orange and colorless calcite with the outer surface completely covered with composite scalenohedral crystals (large crystal covered with smaller crystals of same form).


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists