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 Lignite    This is a cool piece of lignite I found the other day.  It's a piece of lignite (a low grade of coal which retains its woody structure) embedded in a some clay-like matrix which also has lots of mica and some cool pyrite crystals.
	
		| Age | Cretaceous Era |  
		| Category | Plant |  
		| Formation | Patuxent Formation |  
		| Location | Virginia, USA |  
		| Species | Unidentified - Other |  
 
	
		| ID | 2557 |  
		| Member | FromtheArundel110 |  
		| Date Added | 1/17/2008 |  
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