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Sand-Calcite

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Sand-Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Sand Pit, Ochsenhausen, Biberach, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.5 × 4.2 × 4.2 cm
Description

A calcitic concretion with inclusions of Quartz-sand, also called "Sandzapfen" (= flute cast). Those recognizable specimens were found in a sand pit near Ochsenhausen in the 1970s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sand-Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Hardness: 
0.0