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Fluorite & Petrified Wood

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Fluorite & Petrified Wood

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Description
Locality: 
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 8 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
492.00gr
Description

This is a piece of petrified wood embedded in volcano ash. The age of the fossil is about 290,000,000 years. The wood is almost entirely made of violet fluorite. The wood was buried and petrified during the eruption of zeisigwald volcano.

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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

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