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Quartz With Fossil Bacteria Inclusions

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Quartz With Fossil Bacteria Inclusions

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Locality: 
Köster Quarry, Ambrock, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm
Description

A boxed micromount of those uncommon and rare Quartz crystals with yellowish to light brownish fibrous inclusions of Goethite discussed to be caused by archea bacteria. Other authors described them as fungi mycelia (most likely: order mucorales, oligocene-miocene). Very special and rare to this example is the freestanding network of those discussed Limonite structures. Early 1980s specimen.

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