- Database
- Experimentalists
- Date
- 2005-03-16
- Body name
- Earth
- Place
- Sweetwater Mine , Missouri , United States
- Thickness
- 1.0 $cm$
- Diameter
- 2.0 $cm$
- Surface roughness
- polished
- Comments
- The sample is part of a calcite crystal with the dimensions of 4x2x1 cm³
Sweetwater Calcite
- Temperature
- 300.0 $\pm$ 5.0 $K$
- Temperature max
- 300.0 $K$
- Type
- ambient air
- Fluid temperature
- 300.0 $K$
- Fluid pressure
- 1000.0 $mbar$
- Number
- 1
- Layers
- Title
- Preparation of the calcite crystal
- Sample
- Calcite, surface parallel to the crystallographic c-axis (this sample)
- Processing steps
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Step Chronology Date Type Process Changes #1 before layer formation 2005-03-16 mechanical embedding the calcite crystal in epoxy resin #2 before layer formation 2005-03-16 mechanical cutting the embedded calcite crystal, the cut surface is parallel to the c-axis #3 during layer formation 2005-03-16 mechanical polishing of the calcite crystal surface parallel to the c-axis - Comments
- The sample preparation of the related sample was reconsidered. It differs from the description in Posch et al. 2007. Now the corrected sample preparation is represented in SSHADE.