"The Mystery of Lyle and Louise"

Himalayan mineral great for teaching and display.

Dark gray with abundant gas pocket vesicles.

Gray to white, coarse crystalline, carbonate rock.

Pure translucent to white, rhombic cleavages, Mohs’ hardness of 3.

Nearly pure, green crystalline forsterite.

Red-brown to gray, coarse-grained, containing feldspar and mica.

Silvery, paragranite and muscovite-rich with medium garnet crystals.

Coal bed leaf impression. Hand specimen.

When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.

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