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Calcite On Fossil Turritella

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Calcite On Fossil Turritella

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Description
Locality: 
Chassepiere Quarry, Florentville, Luxembourg Province, Belgium
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 2.8 × 2.6 cm
Description

Fossil of a turritella replaced by micritic calcite, with the surface covered by hundreds of lustrous calcite microcrystals. Complete and undamaged. Collected in 2015 by Werner Heirman in a very uncommon locality: the Chassepiere quarry at Florentville (Belgium). Mounted on a methacrylate socle.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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