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Quartz With Fossil Fungi Inclusions

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Quartz With Fossil Fungi Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Köster - Risse Quarries, Hohe Liet, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm
Description

A thumbnail of those uncommon and rare Quartz crystals with yellowish to light brownish fibrous inclusions of Goethite discussed to be caused by archea bacteria. Other authors described them as fungi mycelia (most likely: order mucorales, oligocene-miocene). Early 1980s specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Fungi

Variety Of: 

Organic

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