Gemmology
English | Български
Where am I? > Home > Repository > Forsterite


Gallery view selector

Colour selector
Simple colour schemeredorangey redreddish orangeorangeorangey yellowyellowgreenish yellowyellowish greenslightly yellowish greengreenvery slightly bluish greenbluish greenvery strongly bluish greengreen-blue or blue-greenvery strongly greenish bluevery slightly greenish bluebluevioletish bluebluish violetvioletbluish purplepurplereddish purplestrongly purplish redslightly purplish redcolourlessgreyblack

Forsterite — specimens [gallery view]


In mafic and ultramafic igneous rocks and thermally metamorphosed impure dolomitic limestones (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).
Peridot — specimen 0307
0307
no precise locality
Peridot — specimen 0310
0310
no precise locality
Peridot — specimen 0311
0311
no precise locality
Peridot — specimen 0312
0312
no precise locality
Peridot — specimen 0340
0340
no precise locality
Peridot — specimen 0547
0547
Thailand
Peridot — specimen 0584
0584
USA
Peridot — specimen 0590
0590
Pakistan
Peridot — specimen 0592
0592
Pakistan
Peridot — specimen 0545
0545
no precise locality

Forsterite — specimens — 10
Page 1


Gemmology — gemstones
Front page | Introduction | Classification | Repository | Library

© 2024 National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (NMNHS)
Use of this website assumes acceptance of our terms of use.

The specimens illustrated in this site do not exist in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia.