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Albite

Asahine

Higashi-chichibu city, Chichibu county, Saitama pref., Japan

Albite

Field of view: 30 mm. Albite crystals. The white prismatic crystals are albite.

Recovered from an open space of an albite vein in gabbro subjected to Pumpellyite-Actinolite facies metamorphism. Formed in the late Cretaceous (100 Ma).

Albite from this location was described in 1937.

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