Road Creek Agate











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Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Road Creek Agate has a dull white outer cortex and a matrix that ranges from ranges in color from white to gray and bluish gray.  Sagenite inclusions, aragonitte fans and calcite pseudomorphs may occur.

Texture: 
Fine Grain

Luster:  Vitreous

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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

Road Creek Agate is found as nodules along Road Creek, a tributary of the east fork of the Salmon River, Idaho

 

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