A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Tychite from Searles Lake, California, USA |
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| Description | The white crystals are tychite, Na6Mg2(SO4)(CO3)4. They are on, and in, a clay rich sediment from a dried lake bottom in California. When large, tychite crystals may appear as octahedra. This sample is 4 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ San Bernardino. Searles Lake. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-20. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #700. |
| Key words | tychite, California |
| Tech details | 495 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 833 |
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