A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Grossular from Jackson County, North Carolina |
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| Description | The sample contains reddish grossular, calcium-aluminum garnet, with white quartz and black biotite. Grossular comes in many colors, depending on chemical impurities. Red-rose-pink varieties are, perhaps, the most common. This sample is about 6 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ North Carolina ▹ Jackson |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-04-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1169. |
| Key words | grossularite, North Carolina |
| Tech details | 811 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 307 |
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