A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Travertine from Mineral County, Nevada, USA |
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| Description | Geothermal waters are generally rich in calcium, and calcium carbonate often precipitates in layered deposits at hot springs. As warm water cools and loses gases, porous layered mounds may form. The resulting deposit is called travertine. Mineralogically, most travertine crystallizes as aragonite instead of the more common calcium carbonate mineral, calcite. This sample is 9 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Nevada ▹ Mineral County |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-12. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #667. |
| Key words | travertine, Nevada |
| Tech details | 349 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 704 |
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