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... Zimbabwe . The light mineral is a flesh - coloured microcline ; the darker mineral is a light gray albite . The interdigitated appearance of this fairly typical perthite is quite different from the straight line appearance of the albite ...
... Zimbabwe . The light mineral is a flesh - coloured microcline ; the darker mineral is a light gray albite . The interdigitated appearance of this fairly typical perthite is quite different from the straight line appearance of the albite ...
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... Zimbabwe's national museums at Bulawayo and Harare ( formerly Salisbury ) were founded in 1901 , the Uganda Museum originated in 1908 from collections assembled by the British District Commission- ers , and the National Museum of Kenya ...
... Zimbabwe's national museums at Bulawayo and Harare ( formerly Salisbury ) were founded in 1901 , the Uganda Museum originated in 1908 from collections assembled by the British District Commission- ers , and the National Museum of Kenya ...
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