A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Sulphohalite from Searles Lake, California, USA |
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| Description | The gray crystals are sulphohalite, Na6(SO4)2FCl. The white material may also be sulphohalite but is too fine grained to identify with certainty. This specimen comes from a famous playa lake deposit (Searles Lake, California) where many other evaporite minerals are found. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ San Bernardino. Near Searles Lake. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-05. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #832. |
| Key words | sulphohalite, California, playa |
| Tech details | 616 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 596 |
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