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Record 1 1977-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
OBS

A whitish or grayish monoclinic mineral (...) It occurs in closely compacted masses of divergent or parallel fibers, commonly in cavities in basalts and scoriaceous lavas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
OBS

La "pectolite" serait structuralement très voisine de la wollastonite (...) C'est un minéral habituellement aciculaire, de forme assez voisine de la wollastonite, et elle est pseudo-monoclinique. (...) d = 4,5-5, (...) éclat soyeux, n = 1,60. (...) c'est un minéral assez banal dans certaines roches calcaires métamorphiques (...)

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