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Nosean & Pyroxene Group

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Nosean & Pyroxene Group

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Description
Locality: 
In den Dellen Quarries, Niedermendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1.8 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.22cm
Description

Fraction of a sanidinite ejection block with a fine twin crystal (~2.2 mm) of nosen with an attached pyroxene crystal. From 1996.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nosean

Formula: 
Na8(Al6Si6O24)(SO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Sandkuhle, Maria Laach, Laach lake volcanic complex, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Pyroxene Group

Group Members: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Orthopyroxene Subgroup

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