Paraotwayite

  
Pale green flat lying fibrous crystals occuring with darker retgersite in heavy meteorite matrix. There are several areas of about 2 x 2 mm with at least one of these minerals occurring.
  
Pale green, fibrous, silky, free standing crystals to about 0.25mm with associated darker green retgersite. Both located on two areas on specimen.
Origin: Vaca Murta meteorite, Taltal, Atacama, Chile
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3.5 cm (top/2nd row), 5 x 4 x 2 cm (3rd/bottom row)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Back to Alphabetical list Physical, chemical and crystallographic description Optical properties/Thin sections SEM images TEM images vibrational spectra description IR spectra Raman spectra N-IR spectra F-IR spectra IES spectra