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Fluorite Psm Petrified Wood

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Fluorite Psm Petrified Wood

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Description
Locality: 
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15 × 7 × 1.6 cm
Weight: 
315.00gr
Description

This is a piece of volcanic ash. A petrified branch is enclosed in the ashes. The fossil wood is Dadoxylon sp. The age of the fossil is about 290,000,000 years. The wood is made almost entirely of violet fluorite. Chemnitz Hilbersdorf in Saxony, is currently the only known place in the world where fossil wood with fluorite is found.

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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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