The matrix is dominantly felsic, but also contains biotite, muscovite, epidote and titanite. |
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Associated with the quartz are crystals of almandine, kyanite, biotite, and magnesite. |
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The spotted textures are marked by the growth of biotite, cordierite and andalusite on the metamorphic foliation. |
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Monazite clusters occur in a variety of host minerals, including cordierite, quartz, biotite and andalusite. |
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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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Secondary titanite, chlorite, white mica and pyrrhotite are abundant, and some samples contain metamorphic biotite. |
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Although dark minerals such as biotite and hornblende are usually present, giving the rock a speckled appearance, they are never abundant. |
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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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In most of the intrusion, hornblende and biotite are both present, but occasionally either may constitute the sole mafic phase. |
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This granulite consists of garnet, biotite, muscovite, quartz, plagioclase and cordierite. |
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The intervening host-rock layers are between 2 and 5 cm thick, being composed of biotite, sillimanite, garnet, muscovite, quartz and plagioclase. |
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The deposit was interpreted to have formed by the replacement of biotite by vermiculite under the influence of pegmatitic fluids. |
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The basement is mainly composed of quartz biotite norite and minor serpentinite which belong to the Ordovician Boganclough intrusion. |
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The sample contains the mineral assemblage garnet, staurolite, biotite and rare epidote. |
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Furthermore, the textural evidence implies that the main hydrous minerals in this rock, staurolite and biotite, largely predate garnet growth. |
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It is composed of quartz, oligoclase, and microcline, with minor garnet, biotite, muscovite and iron-oxides. |
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Major mineral phases include plagioclase and pyroxene, with small amounts of opaque minerals, olivine, apatite, and sometimes biotite. |
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The central potassic zone is characterized by the presence of potassium-bearing minerals such as orthoclase and biotite. |
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This is because this mineral was always observed as fine-grained inclusions parallel to the cleavage of biotite crystals. |
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The more altered dykes of the Black Coast have groundmasses of clinopyroxene, plagioclase and rare biotite. |
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It is unclear when the biotite gneisses were imbricated with the cover units or what controlled the imbrication. |
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The biotite melts incongruently at the highest grades with the production of orthopyroxene and ilmenite. |
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The metabasites typically contain coarse-grained hornblende, biotite and plagioclase with accessory titanite. |
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The Bakfjord Granite contains quartz, K-feldspar, biotite, plagioclase, epidote, allanite, muscovite and occasional garnet. |
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Like zircon, quartz, plagioclase, biotite and hornblende, major phenocryst phases, also show variable resorbtion effects. |
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The rock consists of plagioclase, K-feldspar, quartz, clinopyroxene and biotite, with abundant apatite, and ilmenite. |
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It consists of quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase, biotite and white mica, and in places displays a graphic texture. |
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More commonly, anhedral masses are found interleaved with giant biotite crystals. |
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In this method, clear sticky tape was pressed firmly into sample areas and rapidly pulled away, removing thin flakes of biotite with the tapes. |
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The foliation in the lowest unit is locally overgrown by porphyroblasts of andalusite and by biotite. |
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Fine-grained biotite, muscovite and recrystallized quartz grains define the shear foliation. |
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The Borve Series is dominated by varieties of quartzo-feldspathic schist and gneiss, composed mainly of plagioclase, quartz, and biotite. |
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The sample is weakly banded amphibolite-facies gneiss consisting of quartz, plagioclase, biotite and hornblende. |
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The more pelitic samples contain euhedral orthopyroxene residual biotite, and dendritic ilmenite grains. |
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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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In addition some also contain hornblende and epidote, the latter in part replacing biotite. |
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The sample is strongly foliated and consists of garnet, biotite, quartz, plagioclase and cordierite. |
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It is dominated by variably foliated, medium-grained, even-textured to porphyritic biotite hornblende tonalite and quartz diorite. |
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The pegmatites are composed of K-feldspar, quartz, plagioclase and biotite, with titanite, opaque minerals and apatite as accessory minerals. |
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Although biotite is capable of this, other minerals such as muscovite, garnet and cordierite are more efficient and preferentially occur in strongly peraluminous rocks. |
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Quartz, microcline or orthoclase and plagioclase are ubiquitous in the Everest granites, which also contain varying amounts of tourmaline, muscovite, biotite and garnet. |
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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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Garnet is typically recrystallized and is wrapped around by biotite. |
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Textures of kyanite, xenotime and monazite, and some staurolite and biotite, indicate that peak metamorphic mineral growth occurred after D 2 deformation. |
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In contrast to South Achill, peliticlithologies are characterized by the virtual absence of prograde chlorite and chloritoid, whereas biotite is significantly more abundant. |
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The titanite grains from Zones 1 and 2 show marginal growth interstitial to newly grown crystals of metamorphic minerals such as plagioclase, biotite and zoisite. |
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The colour is clear and some inclusions of biotite and melt are present. |
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Detailed elemental and isotopic studies of this crystal fractionation pathway have indicated the importance of mafic phases, notably calcic clinopyroxene and biotite. |
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The stretching lineation is commonly defined by biotite and by recrystallized plagioclase in tails surrounding rotated, moderately retrograded, garnet porphyroclasts. |
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Foliation-parallel quartz veins are cross-cut and extended along microfaults, the sense of offset indicating the same shear sense as indicated by the biotite rhombs. |
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Willman reported astrophyllite, biotite, molybdenite, and riebeckite associated with smoky quartz and microcline on Mount Kineo at North Cheyenne Canyon. |
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This crystal was glassy and was found associated with smoky quartz, microcline-perthite, biotite, zircon, bastnasite, and limonite after siderite. |
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The dominant non-clay mineral composition of the coarse fraction consists of biotite, quartz, and sanidine with lesser amounts of apatite and zircon. |
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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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Some biotite crystals form perfectly euhedral plates, others show a reaction rim rich in opaque granules towards the surrounding microfelsitic base. |
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Quartz, feldspar, white mica and biotite are all major constituents. |
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Accessory chlorite, magnetite or ilmenite, titanite, apatite, partly chloritized biotite, epidote, pyrite and sometimes cummingtonite, are present. |
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The mylonitic foliation, which is defined by biotite, quartz, titanite and epidote, is deflected around the porphyroclasts. |
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Rhyolite tuffs contain pumiceous, glassy fragments and small scoriae with quartz, alkali feldspar, biotite, etc. |
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Its sheer size, rich colour and fine protective biotite shell make it difficult to see deep into the gem. |
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A flake of biotite near the tree's roots provided nourishment and was the only source of potassium in the soil, Bonneville says. |
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For example, granite, a common rock, is a combination of the minerals quartz, feldspar and biotite. |
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The dominant rocks are biotite schist, granitic gnesis, garnetiferous amphibolite and quartzite. |
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The dominant rock type is a megacrystic biotite granite, although the megacrysts are relatively small. |
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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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Among other minerals found in them are biotite, chlorite, tourmaline, epidote, apatite, garnet, hornblende, augite, sphene and pyrites. |
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Plants are shallowly and weakly rooted in a silt soil containing biotite mica and albite feldspars. |
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Schlieren consists of biotite, amphibole, zircon, allanite, monazite, magnetite, and fluorite. |
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Fluid-absent melting of biotite in metapelites in the early stages of crystal anatexis. |
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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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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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Specifically, they are located within the Scrag Lake biotite monzogranite pluton in which quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase, and biotite are the major mineral constituents. |
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It may contain minor amounts of hornblende, biotite and other minerals. |
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Numerous large hornblende crystals and 3 mm long flakes of brown biotite are aligned with each other, which indicates deformation along with magmatic crystallization. |
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The outer archways, which were added later in 1907, are a pink, massive, coarse-grained, K-feldspar porphyritic biotite granite containing biotite psammite xenoliths. |
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