Whale Cove Cliffs, Grand Manan Island, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada
Selection of dendritic copper, some with malachite coating. Grand Manan Museum.
Creamy white spray of scolecite crystals in basalt.
© Van King
Creamy tan heulandite-Ca in a 6 cm vug. Green celadonite in the basalt matrix.
Terminated quartz crystals in a cavity in basalt.
Rectangular creamy-white epistilbite crystals in a cavity in epistilbite.
Vesicle in-filled with colorless to cloudy creamy-white epistilbite showing divergent texture. There is a small cavity near lower right of center with terminated crystals.
Columnar basalt
View from Whale Cove toward the cliffs and waterfalls to the North. May 2011.
© Donald Doell
Looking southerly toward Whale Cove beach
Beach boulders with zeolite-filled vesicles. Vesicles generally 1-2 cm, but one is about 6 cm.