07-03-2024, 00:32
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Hornfels with pinite (= muscovite mica replacing intergrown cordierite-indialite; “cherry blossom stones”), Tamba Group, Mesozoic (Triassic to lowermost Cretaceous), ~98 m.y. contact metamorphic date.
Locality: at or near Mikata, Mikata District, Fukui Prefecture, Honshu Island, southern Japan.
Limper Geology Museum specimen (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA).
http://www.jsjgeology.net/Cherry-blossom-stones.htm
https://www.bobgriffis.com/specimenJSI-02.html