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Petrified Wood With Quartz

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Petrified Wood With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Espenhain, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Fossil
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
19 × 9.5 × 2 cm
Weight: 
220.00gr
Description

This is a piece of petrified wood from the former lignite mine Zwenkau near Leipzig in Saxony. The age of the fossil is about 20 million years. The fossil wood is taxodium. (Swamp Cypress). The petrified wood is made of quartz and is encrusted with countless tiny quartz crystals. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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