| Locality type: | Road Cutting |
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| Species: | Prehnite |
| Formula: | Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 |
| Comments: | "Klaus Albrecht and the author collected many examples of yellow prehnite, associated with axinite and a variety of other minerals...One small piece shows beautiful individual ½ inch tabular crystals... the finest that the author has ever seen. Much of the massive prehnite contained anhydrite casts." Schooner (1958) |
| Habit: | tabular |
| Colour: | yellow |
| Quality for species: | Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) |
| Abundance at site: | Common |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Prehnite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view State Route 2 roadcut, Marlborough, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 657022 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:657022:4 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 36b57abe-3e8a-4132-8c34-16c0d6112e64 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Prehnite |
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| 13.6km (8.5 miles) | ⓘWhite Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 13.8km (8.6 miles) | ⓘWhite Rocks Quarry (Consolidated Quarry), White Rock Mining District, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 17.6km (10.9 miles) | ⓘ2368-2384 Berlin Turnpike (Former Hartford Drive-In), Newington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 18.9km (11.8 miles) | ⓘBalf Quarry, Newington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 19.0km (11.8 miles) | ⓘConnecticut Yankee atomic power plant, Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 19.3km (12.0 miles) | ⓘTrinity Ridge, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 19.9km (12.4 miles) | ⓘState Routes 9 and 372 interchange, Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA |
| 20.7km (12.9 miles) | ⓘUS Route 6 Willimantic Bypass expressway road cuts, Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA |
| 21.5km (13.4 miles) | ⓘUnnamed Zeolite occurrence (1), Wadsworth Falls, Middlefield, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
| 22.0km (13.6 miles) | ⓘState Route 9 Interchange 13 - Beaver Meadow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA |
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