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Pseudocubic Quartz With Fungi Inclusions

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Pseudocubic Quartz With Fungi Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Köster Quarry, Ambrock, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

A very uncommon and rare thumbnail showing transparent pseudocubic quartz crystals with yellowish to orangebrown phantoms 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

Pseudocubic Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Fungi

Variety Of: 

Organic

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