- Title:
- Calcite
- Object name(s):
- Mineralogical Collection The Museum of the University of St Andrews and the Literary and Philosophical Society of St Andrews; CARBONATES
- Brief description:
- Small <2mm rhombohedral crystals of transparent calcite set on a microcrystalline basement of calcite. Both have a brisk reaction with HCl. White streak, with a hardness of ~3. Basement rock is an opaque white colour, while the calcite crystals are transp
- 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; CARBONATES
- Object number:
- GE11942
- Responsible department/section:
- GE:C56, Geology Collection, Heddle, Matthew, Forster
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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