A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Serpentine |
|---|---|
| Description | Serpentine, (Mg,Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4 (magnesium iron silicate hydroxide), has many industrial applications, including brake linings, fireproof fabrics, and as an ornamental stone. It is a major rock forming mineral and is found as a constituent in many metamorphic and weather igneous rocks. It often colors many of these rocks to a green color and most rocks that have a green color probably have serpentine in some amount. Serpentine is actually a general name applied to several members of a polymorphic group. These minerals have essentially the same chemistry but different structures. |
| Location | Canada ▹ Manitoba. Silver Plains Mine. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2002-03-25. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1886. |
| Key words | Serpentine, Manitoba |
| Tech details | 401 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 2540 |
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