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- Clinopyroxene thermobarometry is a scientific method that uses the mineral clinopyroxene to determine the temperature and pressure of the magma when the...
- tetrahedra. Pyroxenes that crystallize in the monoclinic system are known as clinopyroxenes and those that crystallize in the orthorhombic system are known as orthopyroxenes...
- or nepheline), plagioclase, and lesser alkali feldspar. Pyroxenes (clinopyroxenes) are common accessory minerals. Quartz and olivine are absent. The absence...
- mantle from the precipitation and sinking of the minerals olivine, clinopyroxene, and orthopyroxene; after about three-quarters of the magma ocean had...
- Quartz, calcite, tourmaline Monoclinic a ≠ b ≠ c α = γ = 90°, β ≠ 90° Clinopyroxenes, orthoclase, gypsum Triclinic a ≠ b ≠ c α ≠ β ≠ γ ≠ 90° Anorthite, albite...
- clinopyroxenes (with a monoclinic crystal structure). This distinction is important in the classification of pyroxene peridotites since clinopyroxene...
- equal amounts of clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene) or olivine gabbro (for a gabbro containing significant olivine, but almost no clinopyroxene or hornblende)...
- an iron-bearing hypersthene. The prin****l pyroxenes in gabbro are clinopyroxenes, generally iron-rich augites. Norite occurs with gabbro and other mafic...
- confuse diallage with other members of both the orthopyroxenes and the clinopyroxenes. For example, metalloidal diallage can easily be confused with hypersthene...
- or aphanitic igneous rock made up almost entirely of nepheline and clinopyroxene (variety augite). If olivine is present, the rock may be classified...