| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Jersey > Vivianite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 81840 |
| Mineral: | Vivianite |
| Locality: | Raccoon Creek, Mullica Hill, Gloucester County, New Jersey |
| Description: | Nodule of lustrous radial green-black vivianite crystals with an outer rind of limonite-cemented glacial sand. This is a vivianite pseudomorph after a belemnite, and is exposed on both ends. The belemnite was buried and replaced by vivianite. Ex. Miller collection T3478; ex. Betts #76037; collected ca. 1970; classic Cretaceous fossil locality known since the 1890s and the type locality for many fossils |
| Overall Size: | 23x20x13 mm |
| Crystals: | 1-4 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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