A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Gypsum replacing dolomite (Silver Plains Mine, Manitoba, Canada) |
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| Description | Here we see brownish translucent gypsum that has crystalized a fractured red-brwon dolomite. Gypsum is highly soluble in water and so frequent replaces other minerals or fills cracks and other openings. |
| Location | Canada ▹ Manitoba. Near Silver Plains Mine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-05. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #781. |
| Key words | gypsum, dolomite, Manitoba, Canada |
| Tech details | 629 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 610 |
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