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Lepidolite is a lilac-gray or rose-colored member of the mica group of minerals with chemical formula K(Li,Al) 3 (Al,Si,Rb) 4 O 10 (F,OH) 2. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the most abundant lithium -bearing mineral [ 4 ] and is a secondary source of this metal.
This list includes those recognised minerals beginning with the letter L.The International Mineralogical Association is the international group that recognises new minerals and new mineral names; however, minerals discovered before 1959 did not go through the official naming procedure, although some minerals published previously have been either confirmed or discredited since that date.
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
Emergency personnel responded to a crash scene around 9:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday near U.S. Route 75 in Sherman, a city about 17 miles south of the Texas-Oklahoma border, according to the ...
The Ozan marl is around 500 ft thick, and marine megafossils can be found. On top of the Ozan marl is two thin beds known as the Wolfe City Sandstone and Pecan Gap Chalk. The Wolfe City Sandstone is known in the city of Rockwall, Texas for its sandstone dikes that protrude into the surface, and gives a surface expression of a wall built of ...
Acrocanthosaurus.. Archaeologist Jack. T. Hughes has found evidence that the paleo-Indians of Texas collected fossils. [20] After the establishment of paleontology as a formal science, in 1878, professor Jacob Boll made the first scientifically documented Texan fossil finds in Archer and Wichita counties while collecting fossils on behalf of Edward Drinker Cope.
The Baytown Tunnel or Baytown – La Porte Tunnel was a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Baytown and La Porte, two suburbs of Houston, Texas.Completed in 1953, [1] it traveled northeast-southwest underneath the Houston Ship Channel and had a length of 4,110 feet (1,250 m). [2]
Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. Year 2000 population was 110. [235] Jermyn: Jack: Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. Year 2000 population was 75. [236] Jewel: Eastland [237] Jim Town: Dallas [238] Jimkurn: Stephens [239] Joinerville: Rusk [240] Jonesboro