Calcite
Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa, USA
12.5 x 7.5 x 5.0 cm. A striking and excellent, large, two-generation calcite specimen from this obscure Iowa road-cut locality. Very sculptural, wheat-sheaf-like tufts of colorless calcite scalenohedrons are aesthetically scattered on the undulating earlier generation of root-beer-brown calcite rhombs. The bowtie has great visual appeal. Tiny ...
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