A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Gypsum from White Sands, New Mexico, USA |
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| Description | Most of the gypsum at White Sands is in the form of small sand sized grains. The gypsum sands make massive dunes that are popular tourist attractions. In some places gypsum crystals become cemented together around the roots of bushes. Even after the roots have decomposed, long trains of crystals remain cemented together. |
| Location | USA ▹ New Mexico ▹ Otero. Near White Sands. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-05. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #773. |
| Key words | gypsum, New Mexico, White Sands |
| Tech details | 305 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 624 |
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