A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Burkeite from Searles Lake, California, USA |
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| Description | Burkeite is a carbonate-sulfate mineral found in lake clays at Searles Lake, California. It has formula Na6(CO3)(SO4)2. Searles Lake is a playa lake (salty, alkali rich and mostly dry) known for its many rare and unusual evaporite minerals. Most are very soluble in water, so they may have only short life times. The largest of these two specimens is 7 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ San Bernardino. Near Searles Lake. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-05. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #835. |
| Key words | burkeite, California |
| Tech details | 534 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 600 |
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