Mineralogical and crystal-chemical descriptions are provided for two end-members of the new Group 5 introduced by Leake et al. (2004) in the nomenclature of amphiboles. This new classification scheme recognizes the occurrence ...

The crystal structure of ferrian winchite (□0.87K0.13)∑1.00 (Ca0.65Na1.34)∑1.99 (Mg2.78Fe2+0.12 Mn0.07Ti0.01)∑2.98 (Fe2+0.88Fe3+0.92 Al0.20)∑2.00 (Si7.88Al0.12)∑8.00 O22 ((OH)1.77F0.23)∑2.00, a 9.8339(2), b 18.0357(2), c ...

Seventy-five K2O-FeO-Fe2O3-SiO2 liquids were equilibrated in air between 1123°C and 1596°C. The bulk compositions of the quenched glasses range from 35 to 85 wt.% SiO2, 3 to 41 wt.% Fe2O3, 0 to 5 wt.% FeO, and 11 to 34 ...

Although the electron microprobe has become the standard microanalytical tool in modern geosciences, conventional electron microprobe analysis does not allow determination of the valence states of elements such as Fe. The ...

Pink nanofibers were extracted from rose quartz from 29 different pegmatitic and massive vein localities throughout the world. Their width varied from 0.1 to 0.5 μm. On the basis of optical absorption spectra of the fibers ...

Snow entrainment alters the speed and hence the run-out distance of avalanches, yet little is known about this significant process. We studied entrainment in snow avalanches using observations from (1) the Swiss Vallée de ...

Most banded ophiolite complexes contain rocks with eclogite or eclogite-like parageneses. These include various mineralogical varieties of eclogite and eclogite-like rocks, glaucophane and eclogite-glaucophane schists, as ...

Multiple-point simulation, as opposed to simulation one point at a time, operates at the pattern level using a priori structural information. To reduce the dimensionality of the space of patterns we propose a multi-point ...

Field and isotopic evidence suggests the following sequence of metamorphic events for the Tanaélv belt, as determined at the Yavrozero area. The peak of high-temperature amphibolite (and, presumably, granulite) metamorphism ...