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Deerfield / Turners Falls basalt zeolites, Massachusetts

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: Zeolites, prehnite and datolite in Connecticut Valley trap-rock road cuts.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Triassic-Jurassic basalt

Deerfield basalt zeolites.

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