Coesite Image

[Content and History] [Recent Issues] [Back Issues] [Subscriptions] [Contacts]
See Also: [Diamond Crystals] [Excalibur Minerals] [Hudson Institute] [Minerals on CDROM]
Mineral News was founded some twenty years ago and has developed a following of
avid mineral collectors seeking timely information about new finds and other items
of interest to the collector community. Articles are solicited from collector and scientific authors.

Coesite

Mineral:

Coesite: SiO2

Comments:

Coesite inclusion in garnet of eclogite sample (Eur. J. Mineral, 13:567).

Location:

Ultra high-pressure metamorphic area of the Saidenbach reservoir, Erzgebirge, Germany, where micro-diamond-bearing gneiss occurs.

Scale:

Scale Bar 50 µm.

Copyright:

Counter:

This Image has been shown 9824 times

Image Links: