These bottles are 250 ml
iridescent angular basalt sand from the top of a lava flow at Kalapana
forming a layer cake of silty sediment and peat
Olivine forms at temperatures and pressures found in the earth's mantle and is carried up from a mantle hot spot in the basalt that forms the Hawaiian Islands
When it is placed above a line drawn on paper and rotated
aragonite - "cave calcite" - El Potosi Mine, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Chihuahua - hand/display specimen These bottles are 250 mlaragonite CaCo3 Aragonite is a pseudomorph of calcite, with the same chemical formula, calcium carbonate, but a different crystal structure. When carbonated groundwater contains calcium, it most commonly precipitates calcite when cold and aragonite, when hot. Sometimes called "cave calcite," this aragonite comes from the Potosi Mine in the Santa Eulalia Mining District, Chihuahua, Mexico. The silver, lead, zinc and copper ores in this mine are