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Moonstone cabochon. The most common moonstone is of the orthoclase feldspar mineral adularia, named for an early mining site near Mt. Adular in Switzerland, now the town of St. Gotthard. [1] [better source needed] A solid solution of the plagioclase feldspar oligoclase +/− the potassium feldspar orthoclase also produces moonstone specimens.
Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard. In the game, players must survive being stranded on one of several maps filled with roaming dinosaurs , fictional fantasy monsters, and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.
Olivine basalt collected from the rim of Hadley Rille by the crew of Apollo 15. Moon rock or lunar rock is rock originating from Earth's Moon.This includes lunar material collected during the course of human exploration of the Moon, and rock that has been ejected naturally from the Moon's surface and landed on Earth as meteorites.
The optical effect of adularescence in moonstone is typically due to adularia. [7] The largest documented single crystal of orthoclase was found in the Ural Mountains in Russia. It measured around 10 m × 10 m × 0.4 m (33 ft × 33 ft × 1 ft) and weighed around 100 tonnes (110 short tons). [8]
A manmade moonstone is a gem that is created in a lab. It is basically a simulated stone created by man and not by mother nature. Man made gems are usually lab created to make it exactly the same as a real genuine gemstone but sold at about a fraction of what an authentic or genuine gemstone would cost.
An example of a readable book [b]. Each of the nine countries covered by the library, as well as Reporters without Borders, has an individual wing, containing a number of articles, [1] available in English and the original language the article was written in. [2] The texts within the library are contained in in-game book items, which can be opened and placed on stands to be read by multiple ...
Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the final location of Noah’s Ark on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. Soil samples from atop the highest peaks in Turkey reveal human activity and marine ...
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