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Mordenite?

Futo

Ito city, Shizuoka pref., Japan

Mordenite

Field of view: 5 mm. Mordenite in a vesicule. The acicular white crystals are mordenite. The white grains on the basement are labradorite. The black grains are ilmenite.

Recovered from a vesicule of a basalt lava erupted from a monogenetic volcano in an island arc. Formed in the Late Pleistoene (0.1 Ma).

Other localities

  • Yanda (Hyaloclastite, Acicular)
  • Obora Path (Hyaloclastite, Acicular)
  • Futo (Basalt, Acicular)
  • Kusama Mine (Pyroclastics, Radial)
  • Mount Hokidani (Basalt, Acicular)
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