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PostPosted: Mar 28, 2022 17:58    Post subject: What is the correct name for this rock?  

Hi, I would like to know the correct name for this rock, for a time we are making lapidary with this material but still do not have the correct name.

Here people known it as chalcedony but I am in doubt.

Is harder than glass (scratch it), but softer than quartz, found along rhyolitic rocks in Queretaro state, México.
Vitreous luster, and irregular fracture.

Help is much appreciated.

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PostPosted: Mar 28, 2022 18:24    Post subject: Re: What is the correct name for this rock?  

I’m thinking Gneiss, thats a guess NOT an identification
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PostPosted: Mar 29, 2022 01:23    Post subject: Re: What is the correct name for this rock?  

Looks like obsidian, and the locality fits too.
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PostPosted: Mar 29, 2022 01:56    Post subject: Re: What is the correct name for this rock?  

I agree with Alfredo - it looks like a layered volcanic with obsidian and pumice.
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PostPosted: Mar 29, 2022 10:46    Post subject: Re: What is the correct name for this rock?  

I'd call it a welded crystal-vitric tuff--essentially what Matt said.
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PostPosted: Mar 30, 2022 03:23    Post subject: Re: What is the correct name for this rock?  

I never collected that sort of material near Queretaro, but obsidian and tuff make sense. I suspect 'chalcedony' is a way of not saying 'obsidian'!

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I'd call it a welded crystal-vitric tuff--essentially what Matt said.
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PostPosted: Mar 30, 2022 08:10    Post subject: Re: What is the correct name for this rock?  

Obsidian with narrow bands of intense devitrification. The small dots are spots where the glass devitrified ("de-glassed", crystallized).
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