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Saline encrustation (Dry)

19/11/1875; 11/12/1875; 19 November 1875 - 11 December 1875

OUMNH-Hist.Rocks 4161

Notes: Handwritten label accompanying specimen reads "Uspallata Pass Chilian Andes.". Another handwritten label reads "Saline incrustation found under a bridge on the Uspall- ata pass given to me by a Chilian living on the pass. Probably from the Incas bridge "a natural bridge" on the Mendoza side of the pass. I did not quite understand...

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Notes: Handwritten label accompanying specimen reads "Uspallata Pass Chilian Andes.". Another handwritten label reads "Saline incrustation found under a bridge on the Uspall- ata pass given to me by a Chilian living on the pass. Probably from the Incas bridge "a natural bridge" on the Mendoza side of the pass. I did not quite understand the spanish of the donor. The underlined part is all I gathered". To see Oxford University Museum of Natural History's database go to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collect/lifecoll2.htm