Photo category:
Rocks and Minerals specimen collection

  • Photo taken Locality: Greece, Crete, Heraklion, Elia
  • Photo taken by:
    Trichas, A.
  • Photo taken date:
    October 2011
Alabastre
Mineral
Geology
Geology

Photo of an Alabastre sample, collected in Elia of Heraklion in 1999. This is a compact variety of fine grained calcite and is used as building material and decorative objects production. It has hardness of 3.