Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-b95js Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-13T03:47:22.096Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Celestine from a New Locality in Gloucestershire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

R. H. Solly
R. H. Solly*
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The great similarity which exists in the crystallographie and optical constants, cleavage, and absence of twinning in the isomorphous rhombic sulphates is especially marked in Barytes and Celestine, but though the combination of forms is sometimes the same, yet up to the present time a marked individuality has bees perceived in Celestine crystals which has made it easy to recognise the one mineral from the other.

The crystals of Celestine from near Bristol in the red marl, those associated with sulphur from Sicily, or the large flat more or less bluish tabular crystals from Strontian Island, Lake Erie, are varieties which are seldom if ever mistaken for Barytes.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 7 , Issue 34 , July 1887 , pp. 142
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1887

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)