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Fluorite Quartz & Petrified Wood

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Fluorite Quartz & Petrified Wood

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Description
Locality: 
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 2 × 2 cm
Weight: 
56.00gr
Description

This is a piece of petrified wood from Chemnitz Hilbersdorf in Saxony. The fossil wood is a piece of a seal tree. The petrified wood consists partly of blue fluorite and gray quartz. The tree was buried and petrified during the eruption of the Zeisigwald volcano. This happened about 290 million years ago. Petrified wood with fluorite is currently only known from Chemnitz.

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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

Quartz

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

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