Limestone
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Description:
A sample of gray limestone with drusy and small quartz crystals ("Herkimer diamonds") in cavities. One cavity has a pale yellow, doubly terminated quartz crystal. Collected in Herkimer County, c. 1907.
- Site: NY; Herkimer Co.
- Site Number: NH74D
- Era: Paleozoic
- Period: Ordovician
- Rock type: Sedimentary
- Formation: Beekmantown (Calciferous)
- Collection: Geology Collection
- Object Name: Sedimentary Rock
- Object Id: GR628
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