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Mesolite

Oshima Quarry

Shimowada, Nanaho village, Otsuki city, Yamanashi pref., Japan

Mesolite

Field of view: 3 mm. Mesolite associated with Stilbite. The white fibers are mesolite. The transparent grains at the basement are stilbite. The brown fibers are glass roots.

Recovered from an open space of a stilbite vein in basalt erupted from a submarine volcano. Formed in the early Miocene (16 Ma).

Mesolite from this location was described in 1962.

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