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Perthite is used to
describe an
intergrowth of two feldspars: a host
grain of pot****ium-rich
alkali feldspar (near K-feldspar, KAlSi3O8, in composition)...
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Sanidine is
stable at the
highest temperatures, and
microcline at the lowest.
Perthite is a
typical texture in
alkali feldspar, due to
exsolution of contrasting...
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charnockite series,
consisting essentially of quartz,
antiperthite (or
perthite),
orthopyroxene (usually hypersthene) and magnetite, and is equivalent...
- with pot****ium. The
resulting intergrowth of the two
feldspars is
called perthite. The higher-temperature
polymorph of KAlSi3O8 is sanidine.
Sanidine is...
- feldspars. The
feldspar has
partly unmixed on the micro-scale to form a
perthite, and the
presence of the
alternating alkali feldspar and
plagioclase layers...
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Pahangite (also "Pahangese")
Patna →
Patnaites Penang →
Penangite Perth →
Perthites (also "Perthian" and "Perthling")
Pullman →
Pullmanites Putney → Putneyites...
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occurs as fine
parallel segregations alternating with pink
microcline in
perthite as a
result of
exolution on cooling.
There are two
variants of albite,...
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Papagoite Pargasite Parisite Pectolite Larimar Pentlandite Peridot Periclase Perthite Petalite (castorite)
Pezzottaite Phenakite Phlogopite Phosgenite Phosphophyllite...
- "Dalmatian jasper" – not a
jasper at all but a form of the
igneous rock
perthite. The
black spots are
composed of the rare
amphibole arfvedsonite (and not...
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multiple twinning which forms a grating-like
structure that is unmistakable.
Perthite is
either microcline or
orthoclase with thin
lamellae of
exsolved albite...
