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Epidote from Bourg d'Oisans, Isere, Dauphine Region, Rhone-Alpes, France (Type Locality for Epidote)

 
Epidote from Bourg d'Oisans, Isere, Dauphine Region, Rhone-Alpes, France (Type Locality for Epidote)

Epidote from Bourg d'Oisans, Isere, Dauphine Region, Rhone-Alpes, France (Type Locality for Epidote)

Epidote from Bourg d'Oisans, Isere, Dauphine Region, Rhone-Alpes, France (Type Locality for Epidote)

DESCRIPTION:No. 44563
Mineral:Epidote
Locality:Bourg d'Oisans, Isere, Dauphine Region, Rhone-Alpes, France (Type Locality for Epidote)
Description:Many intersecting lustrous green epidote crystals on gray matrix. The epidote crystals are in sheaf-like aggregates of bundled crystals with flat basal pinacoid terminations. Ex. Henry D. Miller (1838-1919 or 1920) collection, bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1909; ex. Loomis-Chaffee School
Overall Size:6.5x4.5x3.5 cm
Crystals:3-25 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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