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  2. Plagioclase - Wikipedia

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    Plagioclase is usually white to greyish-white in color, with a slight tendency for more calcium-rich samples to be darker. [9] Impurities can infrequently tint the mineral greenish, yellowish, or flesh-red. [8] Ferric iron (Fe 3+) gives a pale yellow color in plagioclase feldspar from Lake County, Oregon. [18]

  3. Feldspar - Wikipedia

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    Feldspar (/ ˈ f ɛ l (d) ˌ s p ɑːr / FEL(D)-spar; sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium. [3] The most common members of the feldspar group are the plagioclase (sodium-calcium) feldspars and the alkali (potassium ...

  4. Anorthosite - Wikipedia

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    Polished slab; blue color is labradorescence. Since they are primarily composed of plagioclase feldspar, most of Proterozoic anorthosites appear, in outcrop, to be grey or bluish. Individual plagioclase crystals may be black, white, blue, or grey, and may exhibit an iridescence known as labradorescence on fresh surfaces. The feldspar variety ...

  5. Anorthite - Wikipedia

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    Anorthite (an = not, ortho = straight) is the calcium endmember of the plagioclase feldspar mineral series. The chemical formula of pure anorthite is CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8. Anorthite is found in mafic igneous rocks. Anorthite is rare on the Earth [6] but abundant on the Moon. [7]

  6. Albite - Wikipedia

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    Albite is a plagioclase feldspar mineral. It is the sodium endmember of the plagioclase solid solution series. It represents a plagioclase with less than 10% anorthite content. The pure albite endmember has the formula Na Al Si 3 O 8. It is a tectosilicate. Its color is usually pure white, hence its name from Latin, albus. [5]

  7. Amphibolite - Wikipedia

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    Amphibolite (/ æ m ˈ f ɪ b ə l aɪ t /) is a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase feldspar, but with little or no quartz. It is typically dark-colored and dense, with a weakly foliated or schistose (flaky) structure. The small flakes of black and white in the rock often give ...

  8. Orthoclase - Wikipedia

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    Orthoclase, or orthoclase feldspar (endmember formula K Al Si 3 O 8), is an important tectosilicate mineral which forms igneous rock. The name is from the Ancient Greek for "straight fracture", because its two cleavage planes are at right angles to each other.

  9. Bytownite - Wikipedia

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    Bytownite is a calcium rich member of the plagioclase solid solution series of feldspar minerals with composition between anorthite and labradorite.It is usually defined as having between 70 and 90%An (formula: (Ca 0.7−0.9 Na 0.3−0.1)[Al(Al,Si)Si 2 O 8]).

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