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Clinothulite

Onara

Sanbagawa, Fujioka city, Gunma pref., Japan

IMA approved name

Clinozoisite var. clinothulite

Clinothulite

Field of view: 10 mm. A group of clinothulite. The pale pink prisms are clinothulite. The massive white parts in the interstices of clinothulite prisms are anorthite of metagabbro.

Recovered from metagabbro associated with serpentinite in an accretionary complex subjected to Greenschist facies high-pressure metamorphism.

Clinothulite from this location was described in 1982.

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