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Zircon

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Locality: 
Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg, Ettringen, Eifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1.8 × 1 cm
Description

Zircon "tree" composed of very thin, transparent, long prismatic zircone crystals in a vug of a xenolith. FOV 0.7 mm. The individual branches are only 3-5 µm thick and terminated by pyramids. Older find from 1979. Glued into a box.

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What's on the rock

Zircon

Formula: 
ZrSiO4
Strunz: 
9.AD.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White

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