A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Marble, from the Lucerne Valley, California, USA |
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| Description | This sample from Lucerne Valley, California, USA, contains both calcite and dolomite. The calcite is grayish with a very light blue tinge; the dolomite is lighter - almost white. The two minerals are very difficult to distinguish in hand specimen and in thin section without using a chemical stain. Ward’s Scientific calls this a “blue-gray” marble, but it takes an active imagination to see the blue. Some marbles, including the classic marble from Crestmore, California (not far from Lucerne Valley) have a much stronger blue color. This sample is 10 cm in longest dimension. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ San Bernardino. On the edge of Mojave Desert. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-05-22. |
| Collection | Ward’s University Rock Collection #177. |
| Key words | marble, California |
| Tech details | 738 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 510 |
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