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The mineral assemblage comprises quartz, K-feldspar, albitic plagioclase, white mica, apatite, tourmaline and garnet.
With increasing content of white mica the fabric changes from massive to schistose.
There is a clear correlation between sieve fraction and apparent age for white mica separates.
Secondary titanite, chlorite, white mica and pyrrhotite are abundant, and some samples contain metamorphic biotite.
Andalusite porphyroblasts that overgrow the S 1 fabric were pseudomorphed by colourless mica.
The rocks here are composed of mica schist, and garnets are often found embedded in them.
Consequently, white mica populations and even individual grains may represent compositionally and isotopically heterogeneous systems.
It consists of quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase, biotite and white mica, and in places displays a graphic texture.
We used the cleavage plane of mica crystals as a model substrate in this work.
The slate, where thermally metamorphosed, has been turned into siliceous hornfels and mica schist.
These planes, referred to as slaty cleavage, are caused by the rearrangement of minerals such as mica, chlorite, and clay within the rock.
Water, carbon disulphide, and various other liquids, when they are examined in mica vessels, seem also to be transparent.
The Ogluinsky mine specimens are millimeter-sized octahedra, and the Nicolay mine specimens are unabraded and have mica attached.
They have parallel bright shiny mica wrapping round large grains of pink garnet, brown staurolite, or blue kyanite.
Corundum occurs as an accessory mineral in some metamorphic rocks, such as mica schist, gneiss, and crystalline limestone.
Thus, the competition between monovalent and divalent cations acts only on the DNA sites and does not act on the mica sites.
Xenic rocks, some of chalk, some of limestone, sandstone marls mica shist, and gypsum, are very fertile.
Amazingly, the wind rose on the compass, and the original mica cover have survived intact.
The monazite grains are located along fractured mica foliation planes that run along the base of larger metamorphic minerals.
Subsequent melting of mica pyroxenite may produce potassic magmas as a result of orogenic or extensional, thermal or bark triggers.
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Roscoelite is a vanadium mica from a gold mine at Granite creek, California.
Among other minerals may be mentioned manganese in Vizagapatam, and mica in Nellore.
Window panes of glass mica plates and similar materials were by no means rare in ancient times.
The actinolite slate is dark green, and formed by an almost insensible gradation from the mica slate.
The consequence was a vibration of the mica diaphragm to which the stylus was attached.
By stirring gold-coloured mica spangles or talc, or aurum musivum, into the melted resins just before they begin to cool.
The tertiary formation is followed by an azoic formation of gneiss, mica slate, and phylada with large intrusions of granite.
I procured also from the parish of Pithoea some pencil lead, or lead-like mica which blackens the fingers.
Rays passing through the fluorite window strike the blackened side of the mica, which is parallel and opposite to it.
Garnet, for example, is commonly found as crystals in gneiss and mica schist.
Geologically, the Erzgebirge range consists mainly of gneiss, mica and phyllite.
Near the right hand were two hematite celts, and on the shoulder were three large and thick plates of mica.
Cover the bottom of the stand with this paint, or with some other color, then sprinkle profusely with smalt or mica sand.
I found also fine masses of mica imbedded in quartz, edge upwards, and so compact that its lamination was not perceptible.
If mica is a prominent element, the metamorphic rock is easily parted into overlapping, scaly layers.
The mica has more than paid the working of the mine, and all the rest is clear profit.
They are mining for mica, but the mine is more valuable in other respects than it is as a mica property.
It is thus, thought we, that our manufacturers of fancy wax deal by their mica.
The separation of the mica in this case, or in that of micaceous sandstones, may be thus understood.
The rock was found by Watson to be gneiss, rich in mica, felspar and garnets.
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