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Capo di Bove, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy

(Capo di Bove, Colli Albani, Roma, Lazio, Italia)

A lava flow produced by the activity of the central crater of the volcano during the Tusculan-Artemisian period. It consists of melilite leucitite.



References:
- Fornaseri, M., and Turi, B. (1969): Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Carbonates in Lavas and Ejectites from the Alban Hills, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 23, 244-256.





Mineral List:
'Apatite'
Cahnite
Calcite
Gismondine (TL)
Gismondine-Ca
Gonnardite
Leucite
Melilite
Nepheline
Phillipsite-K (TL)
Spadaite (TL)
Vonsenite
Wollastonite


13 entries listed. 10 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals). 1 type locality (other).

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