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Sample n° 5819

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
MICROCLINE	K(AlSi3O8)	tektosilicates	feldspar	major

Description

Description: mass of pink crystals with prominent cleavage

Information: geochronology - Cahen, L., Delhal, J., Ledent, D. & Reinharz, M., 1963. L'âge des migmatites de Boma et de l'orogenèse ouest-congolienne. Indications préliminaires sur l'âge des formations Mayumbiennes et antérieures. Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 86, 229-269.

Origin

• Country: Congo (RDC)
• Region: Bas-Congo
• Locality: Boma, Carrière des Voies Navigables

Specification

• Donors: Becquaert
  Donation year: 1955
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 1
  Size: 2

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 3
  Quality code 1>2>3: 1
• Holotype: no
  Paratype: no
  Radioactive: no
• Thin section: no
  Chemical analysis: no
  X-Ray spectra: no

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