
Photo category: Rocks and Minerals specimen collection
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.