PrehniteRauschermühle Quarry, Niederkirchen, Otterberg, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Photo: Volker Betz Latitude: 49°33'52"N
Longitude: 7°41'22"E
Steinbruch Rauschermühle, Niederkirchen, Otterberg, Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
Abandoned gabbro-diabase quarry, now on the site of a nature reserve where collecting is strictly prohibited.
Located 1.5 km SSW of Niederkirchen.
NOTE: Electron diffraction studies of a pectolite sample from this locality produced a pattern similar to that of "parawollastonite", and the name "parapectolite" was proposed for this new phase (Müller, 1976). Meanwhile, the polytype has been renamed to "pectolite-M2abc".
References
- Hering, O.: (1956) Mineralien von der Rauschermühle bei Niederkirchen (Pfalz)- Neues Jb. Mineral., Mh., 3, 68-71
- Muller, W.F. (1976) On stacking disorder and polytypism in pectolite and serandite. Z. Kristallogr., 144, 401-408.
- Lapis (1977): 3(6): 9.
- Fleischer, M., L.J. Cabri, G.Y.Chao and A.Pabst (1978) - New mineral names. American Mineralogist: 63: 424-427.
- Emser Hefte 1987(1), 58-63
- Kohout, K. (1990): Lapis 15(9), 38.
- Kohout, K. (1998): Lapis 23(11), 13-19.
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