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- varieties of plagioclase feldspar. Mafic materials can also be described as ferromagnesian. The term mafic is a portmanteau of "magnesium" and "ferric" and was...
- Serpentinization is a hydration and metamorphic transformation of ferromagnesian minerals, such as olivine and pyroxene, in mafic and ultramafic rock to...
- anorthosite): the lower part of the crust may contain a higher percentage of ferromagnesian minerals such as the pyroxenes and olivine, but even that lower part...
- which will eventually crystallise a relatively small proportion of ferromagnesian silicates, such as amphibole, pyroxene, and biotite. The main constituents...
- composed of feldspars sometimes ****ociated with quartz and anhydrous ferromagnesian minerals, with granoblastic texture and gneissose to m****ive structure...
- Up to half of the rock is plagioclase feldspar with the rest being ferromagnesian minerals. angular unconformity An unconformity in which younger strata...
- as olivine or enstatite, or with alumina and lime form the complex ferromagnesian silicates of which the pyroxenes, amphiboles, and biotites are the chief...
- metamorphism (tremolite) and those formed by the alteration of other ferromagnesian minerals (such as hornblende as an alteration product of pyroxene)....
- biotite) are formed. The ferromagnesian minerals are ****umed to be free of Al2O3. The Fe/Mg ratio for all ferromagnesian minerals is ****umed to be the...
- feldspars often are interleaved as perthitic components of the rock. When ferromagnesian minerals are present in syenite at all, they usually occur in the form...