A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Thenardite |
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| Description | Thenardite, Na2SO4, is one of the many evaporite minerals found at Searles Lake (a mostly dry playa) in California, USA. It easily dissolves in water and so is quite rare. It crystallizes in arid regions as a salty precipitate as well as in dry caves and mines as an efflorescence and as a crusty deposit around fumaroles. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ San Bernardino. Near Searles Lake. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-05. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #833. |
| Key words | thenardite, California |
| Tech details | 734 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 602 |
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