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Fluorite & Quartz Psm Wood

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Fluorite & Quartz Psm Wood

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Description
Locality: 
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3 × 1.5 cm
Weight: 
45.00gr
Description

This is a piece of petrified wood. It consists partly of blue fluorite and grey quartz. The fossil wood is Arthropitys bistriata. This fossil wood is similarly constructed like bamboo. The find comes from Chemnitz Hilbersdorf. The piece was stabilized with cyanoacrylate. Fossil wood with fluorite is currently only known from Chemnitz. The age of the stone is 290 million years.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Quartz

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

Wood

Variety Of: 

Plant

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