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| | Leucite Information Center - leucite |
 | | The augite varies a good deal in character, being green, brown or violet, but aegirinc (the dark green pleochroic soda-iron-augite) is seldom present. |
 | | Sanidine, melanite, hauyne and perovskite are frequent accessory minerals in these rocks, and many of them contain melilite in some quantity, The well-known leucitite of the Capo di Bove, near, Rome, is rich in this mineral, which forms irregular plates, yellow in the hand specimen, enclosing many small rounded crystals of leucite. |
 | | Bracciano and Roccamonfina are other Italian localities for leucitite, and in Java, Montana, Celebes and New South Wales similar rocks occur, The leucite basalts belong to more basic types and are rich in olivine and augite. |
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