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Mordenite

Obora Path

Toi, Izu city, Shizuoka pref., Japan

Mordenite

Field of view: 10 mm. A radial group of mordenite. The radial group of acicular white crystals is mordenite.

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

Mordenite from this location was described in 1982.

Other localities

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