Day 2 Highlighted Parts Flashcards
Chemically pure and optically colorless variety of calcite
Iceland spar
Cellular deposits formed around hot or cold calcareous springs are known as
Travertine of tufa
Compact and cryptocrystalline magnesite may be associated with
Opaline silica
Magnesite found in talc, chlorite, mica schists, and in dolomitic limestones
Cleavable magnesite
Siderite also occurs as ___________, with admixed clay minerals, in concretions with concentric layers.
Clay ironstone
Siderite is also found in shales and coal measures as:
Blackband ore
Yellow variety of smithsonite
Turkey-fat ore
The orthorhombic polymorph of calcite; the pearly layer of many shells and the pearl itself
Aragonite (CaCO3)
Gives a yellowish-green flame test
Witherite (BaCO3), Barite (BaSO4)
Gives a crimson flame test
Strontianite (SrCO3), Celestite (SrSO4)
Shape of dolomite crystals that are strongly curved
saddle-shaped
Ankerite becomes yellowish brown due to
iron oxidation
Barite forms frequently in divergent groups or tabular crystals forming _________ or __________
crested barite, barite roses
Anglesite (PbSO4) frequently occur as earthy, in concentric layers that may have an unaltered core of which mineral?
Galena (PbS)
Found in much the same manner as gypsum, but is less common than gypsum
Anhydrite (CaSO4)
Fibrous gypsum with silky luster
Satin spar
Fine-grained massive variety of gypsum
Alabaster
Gypsum variety that yields broad, colorless, and transparent cleavage folia
Selenite
Most of these mineral will fluoresce with bluish-white color in short ultraviolet radiation
Scheelite (CaWO4)
Massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite, constituting the bulk of phosphorite or phosphate rock
Collophane
Phosphate materials of bones and teeth are members of the __________
Apatite group
Gives a diagnostic red coloring
Amblygonite
Ruby red in transparent crystals variety of cuprite
Ruby copper
Red gem corundum
Ruby
Gem corundum of any other color
Sapphire
Black granular corundum; forms when magnetite is intergrown with corundum
Emery
Micaceous and foliated hematite
Specular hematite