A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Glaserite (aphthitalite) from Searles Lake, California, USA |
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| Description | Glaserite is an evaporite mineral having composition (K,Na)3Na(SO4)2. It may be massive or it may form as crusts on other minerals. This sample comes from the famous Searles Lake playa deposits near Trona, California. The Searles Lake deposits contain many other evaporite minerals, including borax, burkeite, galeite, gaylussite, halite, hanksite, mirabilite, nahcolite, northupite, pirssonite, schairerite, searlesite, sulphohalite, teepleite, thenardite, tincalconite, trona, and tychite. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ San Bernardino. Near Searles Lake. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-05. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #839. |
| Key words | glaserite, California, aphthitalite |
| Tech details | 241 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 590 |
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