A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Uvarovite (calcium-chrome garnet) |
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| Description | Uvarovite is a calcium-chrome garnet. The vivid green color is typical. This specimen was split along a seam of uvarovite that is only about 1 mm thick. The dark host rock contains disseminated uvarovite, chromite, pyroxene and plagioclase, as well as some unidentified alteration material. This sample was purchased at a rock and mineral show and comes from an unknown location in Russia. It is about 8 cm across. |
| Location | Russia |
| Photographer | Neil Kadrmas. 2001-05-01. |
| Collection | Dexter Perkins Mineralogy Collection. |
| Key words | Uvarovite |
| Tech details | 832 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 448 |
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