Agrellite
Gallery Location
Not on View
Geography: Place Collected
Canada, Quebec, Temiskamingue, Sheffield Lake
Dimensions
6
Object number
ROMESM34496
Type Status
Department
Natural History: Minerals & Gems
Description
Cotype.
NaCa2Si4O10F
Named in honor of Stuart Olof Agrell (5 March 1913, Ruislip, Middlesex, UK – 29 January 1996), British mineralogist and meteoricist at Cambridge University. He was popular in the United Kingdom for his public television and radio appearances discussing the collection of lunar rocks and soils during the Apollo missions. Described by Dr. Sturman (ROM) in 1976.
Gittins, J., Bown, M.G., Sturman, D. (1976) Agrellite, a new rock-forming mineral in regionally metamorphosed agpaitic alkalic rocks. The Canadian Mineralogist: 14: 120-126.
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