Wairakite
Toi, Izu city, Shizuoka pref., Japan
Field of view: 10 mm. A group of wairakite. The transparent trapezohedral crystals are wairakite.
Recovered from a zeolite vein in tholeiitic andesitic-basaltic tuff breccia in an oceanic arc subjected to prophylitization alteration.
Wairakite from this location was described in 1982.
Other localities
- Nakayashiki (Hyaloclastite, Trapezohedral)
- Obora Path (Hyaloclastite, Transparent)
- Dohira river (Andesite, Vein)