Pebble phosphate with pocket knife, March 19, 1948
Item — Box: 1, item: I-91
A closeup of soil near a garden patch in central Angaur Island. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Pebble phosphate ore among coral fragments in the garden shown in I89, with my knife to show scale. This ore is too shallow to be worth mining, with bedrock virtually at surface."
Dates
- Creation: March 19, 1948
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Language of Materials
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Library Details
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University of Maryland Libraries
Hornbake Library
4130 Campus Drive
College Park Maryland 20742
301-405-9212
askhornbake@umd.edu