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Fluorite Quartz Psm Petrified Wood

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Fluorite Quartz Psm Petrified Wood

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Description
Locality: 
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.5 × 1.7 cm
Weight: 
56.00gr
Description

This is a piece of petrified wood from Chemnitz Hilbersdorf in Saxony. The fossil is almost entirely made of purple fluorite. The type of wood is dadoxylon sp. The age of the fossil is about 290,000,000 years. During the Perm period, the wood was buried and petrified during the eruption of the Zeisigwald volcano. Today, the city of Chemnitz is located in the area. Chemnitz is currently the only known place in the world where there is fossilized wood made of fluorite.

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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

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