AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Calcite on Prehnite |
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DESCRIPTION: | No. 63548 |
Mineral: | Calcite on Prehnite |
Locality: | Woodbury Traprock Quarry, east of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut |
Description: | Lustrous transparent golden-yellow scalenohedral calcite crystals to 15 mm on translucent pale-green prehnite crystal crusts over gray basalt. The calcite crystals have scale-like growth patterns on the faces and fluoresce white under SW UV illumination. Ex. Mort Metersky collection, collected in 1984 |
Overall Size: | 4x3x2.5 cm |
Crystals: | 0.1-15.0 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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