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Laach lake volcanic complex, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
© Stephan Wolfsried
Classification of Pyroxene Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Relationship of Pyroxene Group to other Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. (1988): Nomenclature of Pyroxenes. Am. Mineral. 73, 1123-1133. Morimoto, N. (1989) Nomenclature of pyroxenes. Canadian 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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