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Gypsum

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Locality: Bou Bekker (Bou Becker), Touissit, Touissit District, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco

A brecciated matrix of sandy limestone is stuck together with fibrous gipsum (gips) and dusted with sparkling hemimorphite. The gipsum is distorted and has corkscrewed and splayed out from its parallel growth.

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