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What does heulandite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A common mineral of the zeolite group with monoclinic crystals, the most usual form being heulandite-Ca (Ca,Na)2-3Al3(Al,Si)2Si13O36·12H2O.
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This calcite typically overgrows quartz and crystallizes before heulandite, stilbite, and apophyllite.
For example, Zeolite was dominated by heulandite, with lesser amounts of quartz and smectite.
Here, spectacularly large groups of scolecite, heulandite, apophyllite, and associated minerals occurred in cavities in flood basalt.
These include Nova Scotia's provincial mineral stilbite, as well as heulandite, analcime, chabazite, gmelinite, natrolite and thomsonite.
Comparison is made with assemblages at Arlington Quarry on North Mountain, where the dominant zeolite minerals are heulandite and stilbite.
Isomorphous with heulandite is the strontium and barium zeolite brewsterite, named after Sir David Brewster.

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