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Lévyne & Erionite

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Lévyne & Erionite

Epitaxial overgrowth
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.3 × 2 cm
Description

Basalt matrix with amygdales containing white platy levyne crystals with a white fibrous epitaxial overgrowth of erionite crystals. Other amygdales on the specimen also contain transparent analcime crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Erionite

Synonym Of: 

Erionite-Ca

Formula: 
(Ca,K2,Na2)2[Al4Si14O36]·15H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.20
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Erionite-K

Formula: 
(K2,Ca,Na2)2[Al4Si14O36]·15H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.20
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Erionite-Na

Formula: 
(Na2,K2,Ca)2[Al4Si14O36]·15H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.20
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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