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    In geology and mineralogy, druse is a crystal habit represented by the coating of fine crystals on a rock fracture surface, or vein or within a vug or...
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  • an aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants Druse (geology), an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or mineral...
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    or color, it is caused by the presence of other minerals, sometimes in druse Most often silky and fibrous; chatoyant; can exhibit some coloration The...
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    Jabal al-Druze (redirect from Jebel Druse)
    Jabal al-Druze (Arabic: جبل الدروز, romanized: jabal al-durūz, lit. 'Mountain of the Druze'), is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwayda Governorate...
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    Vug (category Geology terminology)
    voids. The inner surfaces of such vugs are often coated with a crystal druse. Fine crystals are often found in vugs where the open space allows the free...
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    altogether and appear massive. Well-formed crystals typically form as a druse (a layer of crystals lining a void), of which quartz geodes are particularly...
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    Stalactitic calcite Hexagonal calcite Dodecahedral calcite Bipyramidal calcite Druse calcite Twinned calcite Globular calcite Botryoidal calcite Calcite is transparent...
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    phosphate-rich pegmatites. It occurs in the form of perfect crystals grouped in druses, in pegmatites, and is often of precious-stone quality. One noted deposit...
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    In geology, silicification is a petrification process in which silica-rich fluids seep into the voids of Earth materials, e.g., rocks, wood, bones, shells...
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    A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit that contains bones of whatever kind. Inevitably, such deposits are sedimentary in nature. Not a formal...
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    village. Roxalana Druse, who was convicted of murdering her husband, William Druse, with the help of her daughter and nephew. Mrs. Druse was executed in...
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    most beautiful gypsum crystal druses was discovered within the cave. With a diameter of approximately ten meters, this druse was almost entirely lined with...
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    good transparency on matrix of sharp silvery muscovite plates, some with druses of pyrite microcrystals. Bolivia: Llallagua, Potosi: Crystals to 10 cm at...
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    century it had come to refer to rubbish in general. Dregs, and the geological term druse are also thought to be etymologically related. Popular non-metalworking...
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    habit of quartz is hexagonal-pyramidal but can show occasional bipyramids. Druses in baryte can be clad with gypsum. Apple green pyromorphite occurs forming...
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    at Lynch Station in Campbell County, Virginia. The crystals, forming a druse over the mother rock, are very small; 1 mm (0.04 in) is considered large...
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    Julia A., ed. (1997). "niter". Glossary of geology (Fourth ed.). Alexandria, Virginia: American Geological Institute. ISBN 0922152349. Anthony, John W...
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    doi:10.1159/000104440. PMID 17726351. S2CID 8068808. Order in stress – Lessons from the inanimate world Portals: Evolutionary biology Geology Paleontology...
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    government in Damascus. According to the Associated Press, "many young Druse have been quietly relieved at the failure of previous Syrian–Israeli peace...
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    limestone genesis — the microbiogeologist point of view". Sedimentary Geology. 126 (1–4): 9–23. Bibcode:1999SedG..126....9C. doi:10.1016/s0037-0738(99)00028-7...
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    West Siberian Plate (based on data from the Borehole Vostok 3)". Russian Geology and Geophysics. 49 (12): 932–939. Bibcode:2008RuGG...49..932K. doi:10.1016/j...
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    The population had increased in the 1931 census to 706; 19 Christians, 4 Druse and 683 Muslims, in a total of 143 houses. A Jewish settlement, Kibbutz...
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    is used to reconstruct estimates of oceanic CO2 concentrations in the geologic past. Coccoliths and related fossils are referred to as calcareous nanofossils...
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    protonated forms. Such equilibria are relevant to the processes occurring on geological time scales. Some plants excrete ligands that dissolve silicates, a step...
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    crystals have formed out of precipitation from fluids, commonly water, to form druses or quartz veins. Evaporites such as halite, gypsum and some limestones have...
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    of Florida Their Occurrence, Development and Uses, Geological Bulletin No. 30. Florida Geological Survey. Hancock, Farah (May 13, 2019). "Opposition grows...
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    Integument, Verdauungsorgane, Atmungsorgane, Schilddrüse, Thymus, Winterschlaf drüse, bearbeitet von Prof. Dr. C. G. Giebel und Prof. Dr. W. Leche, 1874–1900...
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    reported that in 1846, the large village "Mejdel es Shems, [was] inhabited by Druses, a fierce, warlike race, sufficiently numerous to keep the Bedawîn Arabs...
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    "Pure siliceous ooze, a diagenetic environment for early chert formation". Geology. 22 (3): 207. Bibcode:1994Geo....22..207B. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0207:psoade>2...
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    "Anomalocaris predation on nonmineralized and mineralized trilobites", Geology, 27 (11): 987–990, Bibcode:1999Geo....27..987N, doi:10...
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