GRD00LYS0

110-S126

Quartz Sandstone

Paleozoic › Carboniferous › Pennsylvanian
299.0 - 318.0

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Ritter 154 › Cabinet 23 › Drawer F

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Original label: Pottsville quartz sandstone with green shale fragments. Coll. No. P.T. 383j. May 1951

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Pennsylvania
Penn. Turnpike section. MP 17.6-17.8

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General texture of the sample

5.0

plane

General texture of the sample

5.0

crossed

Heart-shaped mineral surrounded by quartz grains and calcite cement

10.0

plane

Heart-shaped mineral surrounded by quartz grains and calcite cement

10.0

crossed

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scan

crossed

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scan

plane

GRD00LYT0: 65% subangular metamorphic quartz; 33% carbonate matrix; 1% green-brown biref, fractured mineral ; 1% opaques. (C. Eichler)

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