Our Earth is beautiful. Everywhere you look you can see the beauty - the sky, the mountains, the oceans, the lakes, the streams, the plants, and so much more.
The earth's crust is made up of rocks that encompass our mountain ranges and canyons. They have all undergone and continue to experience many changes. Molten lava, a liquid, has cooled and has become a solid, forming rocks. These rocks are a result of the large accumulation of particles and plant and animal life that were compacted down, layer by layer. Rocks can not only compress, bend and erode over time and from the elements but they also metamorphose into different rocks, by the extreme pressure, temperature and chemical activity. They have life and have stories to tell. The records of the most ancient histories of our earth are held in the records of rocks.
Beta Quartz Crystals are just one of those most rare and interesting rocks. They are formed in the earth's crust at temperatures above 573 degrees C and below 870 degrees C. They are rarely found at the earth's surface due to the temperatures at which they are formed. Beta quartz or high quartz is a high temperature polymorph of silica with a crystal structure very similar to that of quartz. Because Beta Quartz is only stable at temperatures that are well beyond that of hydrothermal watery solutions, it is typically formed in igneous silica rich magma. Transparent Beta Quartz is rare, the most common crystals are translucent and have a dull surface. They are hexagonal di-pyramids - meaning they have 12 faces - 6 above and 6 below - but they lack prism faces. They are double terminated because they grew in a melt and were not attached to solid rock during growth.
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