Calcite from
Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Description
Comments:	Occurs sparingly as minute crystals at the base of the upper salt and at several horizons in the parting and bottom mud layers.
Colour:	Ivory-coloured
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Foshag, William Frederick (1935), Burkeite, a new mineral species from Searles Lake, California: American Mineralogist: 20: 51; Smith, George Irving & D.V. Haines (1964), Character and distribution of nonclastic minerals in the Searles Lake evaporite deposit, California: USGS Bulletin 1181-P: 25-26; Eugster, H.P. and G.I. Smith (1965) Mineral equilibria in the Searles Lake evaporates, California. Journal of Petrology: 6: 473-522; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 211; Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 633.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Burkeite
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Searles Lake, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

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