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Title:
Dendritic Chalcedony
Object name(s):
Mineralogical Collection The Museum of the University of St Andrews and the Literary and Philosophical Society of St Andrews; Silicates
Brief description:
Milky white, dendritic Chalcedony, or cryptocrystalline quartz. Has a resinous lustre, is transleucent, has inclusions of a yellow-brown mineral as well as dendritic inclusions of a black mineral. Specimen has conchoidal fracture.
Collection:
University of St Andrews
Object name:
Mineralogical Collection The Museum of the University of St Andrews and the Literary and Philosophical Society of St Andrews; Silicates
Object number:
GE11953
Object production date:
Date - latest:
1849
Responsible department/section:
GE:C56, Geology Collection, Heddle, Matthew, Forster

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3d8cc3e8-5d6a-3037-a344-32e0b996e4cc

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3d8cc3e8-5d6a-3037-a344-32e0b996e4cc, University of St Andrews, CC BY-NC

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