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Gyrolite

Lake Sayama

Maeyama, Ueda city, Nagano pref., Japan

Gyrolite

Field of view: 5 mm. A group of gyrolite. The micaceous silver-white crystals are gyrolite exhibiting cleavage along the basal plane. The surrounding black host is andesite, and the vesicule is filled with gyrolite. The two dark brown grains at the left of gyrolite are phenocrysts of augite.

Recovered from a vesicule of an andesitic pillow lava.

Gyrolite from this location was described in 1974.

Other localities

  • Lake Sayama (Andesite, Massive)
  • Heguri (Ultramafic, Vein)
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