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Calcite crystals on limestone (Dry)

24/09/1874; 24 September 1874

OUMNH-Hist.Rocks 4001

Notes: Handwritten label accompanying specimen reads "From Little Kè Island". Another handwritten label reads "Hard crystalline rock from a low irregular cliff with extremely honey combed surface near Dulan in Little Kè Island. The rock has been excavated and ["has" crossed out] a shore platform has been formed as in situ.". To see Oxford University...

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Notes: Handwritten label accompanying specimen reads "From Little Kè Island". Another handwritten label reads "Hard crystalline rock from a low irregular cliff with extremely honey combed surface near Dulan in Little Kè Island. The rock has been excavated and ["has" crossed out] a shore platform has been formed as in situ.". To see Oxford University Museum of Natural History's database go to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collect/lifecoll2.htm