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Pericline Albite & Quartz

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Pericline Albite & Quartz

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Innergschlöss, Tauern Valley, East Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Mixed Specimens
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.4 × 2.1 cm
Description

Nice combination of perikline, albite and smoky quartz. Undamaged floater from an ice-filled alpine cleft.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pericline

Variety Of: 

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Hardness: 
0.0

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

Quartz

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