ID: 1023
rec_id: 1023
site_name: Moccasin area
oremin: Riebeckite occurs most commonly as irregular bundles of elongate prisms, pseudomorphous after hornblende, and as fine needles in groundmass....In altered phyllitic rocks it forms felted to nematoblastic aggregates, commonly preferentially replacing specific beds or lamellae."" (Albino, 1995, p. 387)
devel: outcrops
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url: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/asbestos/show-asbestos.php?rec_id=1023