Closer to the contact microcline is replaced by sanidine, and perthitic exsolution in detrital alkali feldspar begins to disappear. |
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Zircon commonly forms curved tetragonal crystals that radiate from a base of biotite crystals and terminate in adjacent feldspar. |
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Minerals such as feldspar, which are insoluble in water, will not give a positive test. |
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Its most abundant mineral is feldspar, which accounts for two-thirds of the Earth's crust. |
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The rock is cemented by a mixture of quartz overgrowths, K-rich feldspar, and an oxidized ferruginous clay now dominated by chlorite. |
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Strain shadows around feldspar porphyroclasts contain recrystallized potassium feldspar, plagioclase and quartz. |
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The reappearance of feldspar in the detritus probably indicates erosion of a less mature source area. |
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The granodiorite deposits at Aswan are often gneissoid in texture, exhibiting parallel orientated feldspar phenocrysts. |
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All five rock samples are mineralogically simple, and comprise mainly muscovite, quartz and feldspar with accessory epidote and biotite. |
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Quartz is associated most commonly with aegirine and potassium feldspar as well as zircon. |
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When the sandstone contains appreciable quantities of feldspar the rock is called arkose. |
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The fault places massive fractured greenstones over relatively undeformed feldspar andesite porphyry. |
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Invisible traces of quartz, calcite, gypsum and feldspar, the dust of its resting place for more than two millennia, cling to the bronze. |
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The plagioclase feldspar weathers to produce a whitish gray rock, while the mafic minerals produce contrasting darker grains. |
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It is important to note that potassium feldspar did not deform in a ductile fashion during post-peak-metamorphic deformation. |
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Sericite is fine-grained muscovite formed by alteration of such minerals as feldspar, cordierite, and sillimanite. |
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In 1977 and 1978 about 5,000 short tons of potassium feldspar were mined from the Blue Spar. |
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All four samples are medium-grained, and comprise variable proportions of hornblende, feldspar and quartz with accessory biotite and titanite. |
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These microfaults are commonly pulled apart with growth of new quartz and biotite between pulled apart feldspar and hornblende. |
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Along the vein wall, adjacent to the country rock, are fine-grained quartz, feldspar, and chlorite. |
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Extreme cases are found in mineral groups such as apatite, amphibole, pyroxene, feldspar, and tourmaline. |
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Feldspar is dominated by microcline, but plagioclase and perthitic feldspar are also present. |
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There are no secondary sodic phases present, and no observed albitization of potassium feldspar, suggesting only limited Na mobility. |
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In practice many basalts also contain easily visible crystals of feldspar, pyroxene, olivine, or amphibole. |
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Graphic granite is a regular intergrowth of quartz and feldspar that gives an angular appearance suggestive of cuneiform writing. |
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These granite dikes are composed almost totally of potassium feldspar and quartz. |
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The siltstones are composed of angular quartz and rare feldspar, set in a finer matrix that locally contains some calcite. |
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A plagioclase feldspar, albite probably, occurs as parallel growths of transparent colorless to yellowish crystals. |
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The fragments are angular and the feldspar fragments fresh, although there are considerable amounts of chloritic alteration products. |
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The siltstones contain poorly sorted angular fragments of quartz, and angular clasts and cleavage fragments of plagioclase and alkali feldspar. |
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In the vein's central vug, ferroaxinite overlies a selvage of quartz, orthoclase, and microcline feldspar and is followed by fine-grained calcite. |
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The semi-pelites usually consist of biotite, quartz, plagioclase and untwinncd feldspar, and garnet forms abundant porphyroblasts in some varieties. |
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It is a reddish brown sandstone formed by detrital quartz, plagioclase, feldspar and muscovite, with subordinate apatite, zircon and opaque minerals. |
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Larger crystals of feldspar and quartz dominate the host rock. |
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Quartz, feldspar, white mica and biotite are all major constituents. |
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The conversion of feldspar to cristobalite involves the removal of water. |
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It includes vast deposits of coal, limestone, slabs, oil and natural gas, manganese, asbestos, iron ore, gold, diamonds, graphite, tungsten, steatitic, feldspar, and silica. |
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At least two Eocene feldspar porphyry dykes or sills intrude Tsa da Glisza, and appear to have followed the same planes of weakness as the aplite dykes. |
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The first phase of diagenetic albite constitutes an impure, turbid variety including albitized grains of original plagioclase and alkali feldspar. |
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The province is also endowed with other non-traditional minerals including nickel, feldspar, emerald, limestone, granite, amethyst, sodalite and syenite. |
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The groundmass of these leucocratic segregations is heterogeneous, consisting of centimeter-scale regions dominated by nepheline, natrolite, alkali feldspar, or wollastonite. |
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Of these, alkali feldspar, particularly orthoclase, is the most common. |
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A slightly bluish-gray feldspar, probably either microcline or orthoclase, without polysynthetic twinning lines occurs as crystals to 2 cm across. |
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Aligned igneous minerals of euhedral potassium feldspar, plagioclase, biotite and hornblende in an undeformed quartz matrix define a magmatic foliation. |
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Especially noteworthy in thin section is the scarcity of potassium feldspar in any of the igneous clast types in this section. |
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Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar. |
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Other raw materials can include feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, petuntse and alabaster. |
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For example, granite, a common rock, is a combination of the minerals quartz, feldspar and biotite. |
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In the case of the alkali feldspar minerals, thin white albite layers will alternate between typically pink microcline. |
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In most sedimentary rocks, mica, feldspar and less stable minerals have been reduced to clay minerals like kaolinite, illite or smectite. |
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When a granitoid is devoid or nearly devoid of plagioclase, the rock is referred to as alkali feldspar granite. |
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This tourmalinisation occurred during the late stages of cooling of the granite, as feldspar and mica were partly replaced by tourmaline. |
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Some of the feldspar phenocrysts are more than 1 cm long, but most are less than 5 mm. |
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The island is rich in minerals such as ilmenite, feldspar, graphite, silica, kaolin, mica and thorium. |
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Other products being mined or being studied are mercury, tin, copper, lead, sand, fluorite, feldspar, lime, kaolin, and more. |
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Rhyolite tuffs contain pumiceous, glassy fragments and small scoriae with quartz, alkali feldspar, biotite, etc. |
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Some varieties include feldspathic greywacke, which is rich in feldspar, and lithic greywacke, which is rich in tiny rock fragments. |
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For example, orthoclase is typically feldspar from granite, while its modifications occur in lavas of similar composition. |
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If the rock has a greater percentage of alkali feldspar, it grades into a syenite. |
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Feldspar separates consisted of alkali feldspar, either albitic plagioclase or potassium feldspar, or mixtures of both. |
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It is a fine, usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals such a feldspar, a plastic clay mineral kaolinite. |
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Plagioclase is often replaced by alkali feldspar and varies in composition from andesine to oligoclase. |
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Skeletal feldspar grains contain ankerite rhombs, and tiny sphalerite, galena, barite, and siderite crystals. |
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These minerals include sheet kaolinite, vermiform kaolinite, k-feldspar, pyrite crystals, corrosion quartz and corrosion feldspar. |
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Kaolinization of the feldspar has also occurred in the oxidized beds, although it primarily involved the plagioclase. |
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The most important property of feldspar is its tendency to form crystalline mineral leucite when melted. |
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This statistical market research report covers feldspar, leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite. |
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Analyses using a polarizing light microscope aids in identification of cellulose and various minerals such as quartz and feldspar. |
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The feldspar fraction is dominantly altered orthoclase feldspar and perthitic ortho-clase feldspar with traces of microcline and plagioclase. |
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Rhyolite consists of feldspar microlites, quartz, and minor K-feldspar, and exhibits only weak alteration. |
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Pegmatite is coarsely crystalline with individual feldspar crystals reaching up to 10 cm in length. |
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. |
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In the volcanic beds illite-smectite, kaolinite, and potassium feldspar dominate. |
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This met the requirements of the ceramics industry and extended the reserves of high potassium feldspar ore available to the Monticello facility. |
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The different zones are strong propylite, argillic, sericitic and potassic alteration hosted in a biotite, feldspar quartz porphyry. |
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The texture of andesite is generally porphyritic, with phenocrysts of feldspar and ferromagnesian minerals. |
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Quartz occurs as euhedral grains, which, however, began to crystallize later than the intratelluric feldspar megacrysts. |
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However, quartz, feldspar, several clay minerals, bayerite and calcite were common in sediment samples. |
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Anhydrite, potassium feldspar and magnetite as alteration minerals. |
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Its amount increases abruptly close to the contacts of the anorthosites with silicic rocks, where perthitic alkali feldspar partly replaces plagioclase. |
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The sample consists of light grey, sparsely porphyritic, aphanitic rhyolite with potassium feldspar, and lesser amounts of quartz and granophyre phenocrysts. |
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Plagioclase is commonly the only feldspar phyric phase in the felsic to intermediate volcanic clasts, including lapilli and vitric tuff and probable ash-flow tuff. |
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Turkey possesses known deposits of 77 of the 90 marketable minerals, most notably boron, feldspar, marble, baryte, celestite, emery, limestone, magnesite, perlite and pumice. |
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The beads in this set were made using a range of materials, predominantly carnelian and turquoise, but also nephrite jade, microcline feldspar and other blue-green stones. |
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Among the crystalline schists of many regions, green beds or green schists occur, which consist of quartz, hornblende, chlorite or biotite, iron oxides, feldspar, etc. |
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Trachyte tuffs contain little or no quartz but much sanidine or anorthoclase and sometimes oligoclase feldspar, with occasional biotite, augite and hornblende. |
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Many of the granites contain large alkali feldspar phenocrysts. |
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As demonstrated in the following reaction, this causes potassium feldspar to form kaolinite, with potassium ions, bicarbonate, and silica in solution as byproducts. |
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Chemical weathering of granite occurs when dilute carbonic acid, and other acids present in rain and soil waters, alter feldspar in a process called hydrolysis. |
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For instance, a granite that is formed from melted sediments may have more alkali feldspar, whereas a granite derived from melted basalt may be richer in plagioclase feldspar. |
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The pavements on Queen Street are composed of the rock diorite and exhibit feldspar crystals, while those around Princesshay are composed of granodiorite. |
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In this series, quartz is the most stable, followed by feldspar, micas, and finally other less stable minerals that are only present when little weathering has occurred. |
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Later, the composition of the Meissen hard paste was changed and the alabaster was replaced by feldspar and quartz, allowing the pieces to be fired at lower temperatures. |
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Lifetime determination of OSL signals from potassium feldspar. |
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