| | Description | |
| Type Locality: | Reed Station, Tiburon Peninsula, Marin Co., California, USA is the type locality for Lawsonite | | Comments: | Occurs in schists. | | Quality of samples: | not specified / average specimens | | Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Believed Valid | | References | |
| References: | Ransome, Frederick Leslie (1895), On lawsonite, a new rock-forming mineral from the Tiburon Peninsula, Marin County: University of California, Department of Geological Science Bull.: 1: 301-312; American Mineralogist (1969) 54, 1139-1150; Papike, J.J. and Clark, J.R. (1968a) Cation distribution in the crystal structure of glaucophane; II: the high pressure polymorph. Geological Society of America Abstract, 1966: 157; Klein, C. (1969) Two-amphibole assemblages in the system actinolite-hornblende-glaucophane. American Mineralogist: 54: 212-237. | | Associated minerals: | |
| Associates: | Albite
Epidote
Glaucophane
| | Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Lawsonite data | | Locality Data: | Click here to view Reed Station, Tiburon Peninsula, Marin Co., California, USA | | Photo Gallery | View Gallery (7 photos) |
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