Nice open-access paper on "glendonites", distinctive crystals often found in shallow cold-water marine sediments. Beautiful examples were commonly found in the Clyde estuary when it was regularly dredged, like this lovely example in the Hunterian Museum collections. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2023.060 #Geology #Mineralogy #Ikaite #Glendonite
Insights into glendonite formation from the upper Oligocene Sagavanirktok Formation, North Slope, Alaska, U.S.A. | Journal of Sedimentary Research | GeoScienceWorld