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What is plagioclase feldspar?
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Plagioclase is the most common and abundant mineral group in the Earth's crust. Part of the feldspar family of minerals, it is abundant in igneous and metamorphic rock, and it is also common as a detrital mineral in sedimentary rock.
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Quartz – Japan twin Diagram of twinned crystals of albite.On...
- Feldspar
Feldspar (/ ˈ f ɛ l (d) ˌ s p ɑːr / FEL(D)-spar; sometimes...
- Polysynthetic Twinning
Based on their chemical composition, feldspars can be subdivided into two mineral groups – plagioclase feldspars and potassium feldspars. Plagioclase feldspars are a continuous mineral series in which calcium and sodium substitute for one another in the same crystal structure.
Granite ( / ˈɡrænɪt / GRAN-it) is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.
Plagioclase is the name of a group of feldspar minerals that form a solid solution series ranging from pure albite, Na (AlSi 3 O 8 ), to pure anorthite, Ca (Al 2 Si 2 O 8 ). Minerals in this series are a homogenous mixture of albite and anorthite.
Plagioclase, any member of the series of abundant feldspar minerals usually occurring as light-colored, glassy, transparent to translucent, brittle crystals. Plagioclase is a mixture of albite, or sodium aluminosilicate, and anorthite, or calcium aluminosilicate.
1 day ago · Overview. plagioclase feldspar. Quick Reference. One of the most important rock-forming silicate minerals with the general formula (Na,Ca) (Al) 1–2 (Si) 2–3 O 8.
