A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Barite on quartz from Joplin, Missouri, USA |
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| Description | Most of this sample is fine grained quartz coated with iron oxide, but the light whitish crystals are barite, (BaSO4). This specimen is 10.5 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Missouri ▹ Jasper. Near Joplin. |
| Photographer | Twyla Baker. 2001-05-30. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #886. |
| Key words | Barite |
| Tech details | 1.13 MB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 564 |
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