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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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Major minerals include plagioclase, microcline, quartz, and muscovite.
Perthitic textures on the
microcline are possible.
Minor minerals include biotite...
- with
distinctive phenocrysts of blue
quartz (a rare
quartz color) and
perthitic feldspar (light grayish-orangeish). The brown, fine-grained groundm****...
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feldspar compositions during cooling of an
intermediate composition. The
perthitic textures in the
alkali feldspars of many
granites can be seen with the...
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Syenite all
contain primarily alkali feldspar, with many
rocks displaying perthitic igneous texture. The
perthites range from
microperthite (lamellae barely...
- be on a
scale from
microscopic to
readily observable in hand-sample;
perthitic texture forms when Na-rich
feldspar exsolve in a K-rich host. The opposite...
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feldspar in
granites is
typically orthoclase or
microcline and is
often perthitic. The
plagioclase is
typically sodium-rich oligoclase.
Phenocrysts are...
- volcanics,
which they
intrude into. They are
granite with
granophyric quartz,
perthitic pot****ium feldspar,
biotite and magnetite. They are
intrusive into the...
- 35% of the
feldspar content. Such
feldspars often are
interleaved as
perthitic components of the rock. When
ferromagnesian minerals are
present in syenite...
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texture Orbicular texture Ortho****ulate
Panidiomorphic Pegmatitic Peloidal Perthitic Phaneritic Phyllitic Pisolitic Poikilitic Poikiloblastic Porphyroclastic...
