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Title:
Obsidian Slices
Object name(s):
Mineralogical Collection The Museum of the University of St Andrews and the Literary and Philosophical Society of St Andrews; ROCK
Brief description:
Slices of obsidian. Samples are black, opaque, glassy lustre, white streak, with a conchoidal fracture. Samples are very fragile and most are broken fragments of a larger slice.
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; ROCK
Object number:
GE12268
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/ab46dbc6-664a-3048-98be-6aac4a8c7cdc

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ab46dbc6-664a-3048-98be-6aac4a8c7cdc, University of St Andrews, CC BY-NC

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