[Rockhounds] Metamorphic, Igneous and Sedimentary

[Drew]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:10 AM, <Pmodreski at aol.com> wrote:

> Sounds like you are on pretty good track with your rocks, Drew, especially
> with the comments that Carolyn added.
>
> I was amused that you said "smaragdite"---I thought that was a term that
> mostly went out with the Middle Ages.   :  )
>
> (not that I was really sure what it meant, but Carolyn seemed to  know.--I
> think smaragdus was an archaic name for some kind of green stone, often
> interpreted to be emerald.)
>
> cheers, Pete
>

I used to call the stuff ruby (which is a stretch) in zoisite, but I was
corrected and told it was called smaragdite.  I'm just going by that because
that is better than "green rock with pink corundum"! :)

Drew


--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
---