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Quartz & Chlorite

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Quartz & Chlorite

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Description
Locality: 
Chania, Crete, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 2.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

Interesting and unusual locality specimen from the alpine type fissures of Crete. Unusual quartz crystals with short prism faces that are almost gone, with green chlorite as inclusions and as a partial coating.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Chlorite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorite Group

Group Parent: 
Chlorite
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Green, Grey, Brown
Streak: 
colourless

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