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A group of inosilicate (chain silicate) minerals with the general formula ABSi2O6. Divided into the Clinopyroxene Subgroup (monoclinic) and the Orthopyroxene Subgroup (orthorhombic). The most recent nomenclature is given by Morimoto (1989). |
Classification of Pyroxene Group | ||
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References for Pyroxene Group | ||
| Reference List: | Wyckoff, R.W.G., Merwin, H.E., and Washington, H.S. (1925) X-ray diffraction measurements upon the pyroxenes. American Journal of Science, 5th. Series: 10: 383-397. Edgar, A.D., A. Mottana & N.D. MacRae (1969), The chemistry and cell parameters of omphacite and related pyroxenes: Mineralogical Magazine: 37: 61-74. Fleet, M.E. (1974b) Mg,Fe 2+ site occupancies in coexisting pyroxenes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology: 47: 207-214. Reid, A.M., Brown, R.W., Dawson, J.B., Whitfield, G.G., and Siebert, J.C. (1976) Garnet and pyroxene compositions in some diamondiferous eclogites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology: 58: 203-220. Arndt, N.T. and Fleet, M.E. (1979): Stable and metastable pyroxene crystallization in layered kamatiite lava flows. American Mineralogist: 64: 856-864. Cameron, M. and Papike, J.J. (1981) Structural and chemical variations in pyroxenes. American Mineralogist: 66: 1-50. Watanabe, S., M. Kitamura, & N. Morimoto (1985), A transmission electron microscope study of pyroxene chondrules in equiliberated L-group chondrites: Eaqrth and Planetary Science Letters: 72: 87-98. Morimoto, N. (1989) Nomenclature of pyroxenes. Caadian Mineralogist: 27: 143-156. Brizi, E., & M. Mellini (1992), Kinetical modelling of exsolution textures in igneous pyroxenes: Acta Vulcanologica: 2: 87-93. Bell, D.R., Ihinger, P.D., and Rossman, G.R. (1995) Quantitative analysis of trace OH in garnet and pyroxenes. American Mineralogist: 80: 465-474. Wodland, A.B. (1998) The orthorhombic to high-P monoclinic phase transition in Mg-Fe pyroxenes. Can it produce a seismic discontinuity? Geophysical Research Letters: 25: 1241-1244. Papike, J.J., Karner, J.M., and Shearer, C.K. (2005) Comparative planetary mineralogy: Valence-state partitioning of Cr, Fe, Ti and V among crystallographic sites in olivine, pyroxene, and spinel from planetary basalts. American Mineralogist: 90: 277-290. | |
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Localities for Pyroxene Group | ||
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