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Perthite or
perthitic texture is used to
describe an
intergrowth of two feldspars: a host
grain of pot****ium-rich
alkali feldspar (near K-feldspar, KAlSi3O8...
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Sanidine is
stable at the
highest temperatures, and
microcline at the lowest.
Perthite is a
typical texture in
alkali feldspar, due to
exsolution of contrasting...
- with pot****ium. The
resulting intergrowth of the two
feldspars is
called perthite. The higher-temperature
polymorph of KAlSi3O8 is sanidine.
Sanidine is...
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charnockite series,
consisting essentially of quartz,
antiperthite (or
perthite),
orthopyroxene (usually hypersthene) and magnetite, and is equivalent...
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Pahangite (also "Pahangese")
Patna →
Patnaites Penang →
Penangite Perth →
Perthites (also "Perthian" and "Perthling")
Pullman →
Pullmanites Putney → Putneyites...
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commonly represented by
orthoclase and the
exsolved lamellar albite, form
perthite. In some
rocks the
potash feldspar, in
others the soda
feldspar predominates...
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intrusive rock,
which consists essentially of alkali-feldspar (orthoclase,
perthite, anorthoclase, and albite). Some
samples may
contain a
small amount of...
- feldspars. The
feldspar has
partly unmixed on the micro-scale to form a
perthite, and the
presence of the
alternating alkali feldspar and
plagioclase layers...
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occurs as fine
parallel segregations alternating with pink
microcline in
perthite as a
result of
exolution on cooling.
There are two
variants of albite,...
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composition alkali feldspars are
allowed to cool slowly,
exsolution occurs and a
perthite structure results.
Anorthoclase occurs in high
temperature sodium rich...
