Calcium Carbonate Coral Skeleton
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral, calcium carbonate
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1053
- Description
- Calcium carbonate skeleton of modern day colonial coral. Several thousand individual corals would have lived in this structure. Typical of high energy, clean water environment. From the west coast of Canada.
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- Title
- Calcium Carbonate Coral Skeleton
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral, calcium carbonate
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 7.0 x 8.0 cm
- Description
- Calcium carbonate skeleton of modern day colonial coral. Several thousand individual corals would have lived in this structure. Typical of high energy, clean water environment. From the west coast of Canada.
- Subject
- Num-ti-jah Lodge
- Jimmy Simpson
- geology
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 2000
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1053
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