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Lava (Dry)

Description

Notes: Specimens in Dent's collar box. Handwritten label accompanying specimens reads "Lava with surface decomposed from the water of Ternate The rocks in the accessible part of the water are much less decomposed than at Gunong Api Banda. eruptions having been here much more recent & frequent & the exhaling gases having had less time to act". To see Oxford University Museum of Natural History's database go to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collect/lifecoll2.htm