Analcime
Heguri-naka, Minami-Boso city, Chiba pref., Japan
Field of view: 30 mm. Euhedral crystals of analcime. The transparent trapezohedral crystals are analcime. The grayish-green host is tuff.
Recovered from an open space of an analcime vein in tuff of an accretionary complex subjected to Prehnite-Pumpellyite facies metamorphism.
Analcime from this location was described in 1975.
Other localities
- Heguri (Tuff, Granular)
- Yoka (Basalt, Granular)
- Nakadomari (Pillow lava, Granular)