A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Faujasite |
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| Description | Faujasite belongs to the Tectosilicate Zeolite group. It is found in basaltic volcanics, metapyroxenite, also with augite in limburgite. Faujasites chemical formula is (Na2,Ca,Mg)[Al2Si4O12]ยท8(H2O). It was named after Barthelemy Faujas de Saint Fond (1741-1819), a French geologist and writer on the origin of volcanoes. |
| Location | Germany. Near Baden. |
| Photographer | Shannon Heinle. 2001-02-20. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1868. |
| Key words | faujasite, silicate, zeolite |
| Tech details | 437 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 107 |
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