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Quartz Wave
This marvellous 'moment in time' was scanned from a small quartz tip, and is quite typical of quartz which in ideal conditions forms perfectly clear six-sided prisms by hot water in veins in rocks.
The yellow colouration is the product of a few specks of actual colour and internal optical effects, while the white formation in the foreground cuts through the quartz surface.
Quartz is the most abundant material in the earth's continental crust, and made up of a lattice of silica tetrahedra in the coarse-grained igneous rock pegmatite. |