'Wavellite from Hot Springs, Arkansas'

Credit: JOEL AREM/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Wavellite is aluminum hydroxyphosphate, a mineral of secondary origin that occurs in a wide variety of rock types. It is widespread but not abundant. Crystals are rare; its general appearance is in balls of thin fibrous crystals that display a lovely and distinctive radial pattern. One of the world's best known localities for wavellite is at Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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