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Heulandite

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Toi, Izu city, Shizuoka pref., Japan

Heulandite

Field of view: 10 mm. A group of heulandite. The tabular transparent crystals are heulandite. The grayish-brown host at the left is tuff breccia.

Recovered from an open space of a zeolite vein in tholeiitic andesitic-basaltic tuff breccia in an oceanic arc subjected to prophylitization alteration.

Heulandite from this location was described in 1937.

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