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Plagioclase from
Petersburg meteorite, Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Comments:Plagioclase: An86 [according to Duke & Silver, 1967]; Ab8-14 [according to Mason et al., 1979]; An88 [according to Mittlefehldt et al., 1998]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Petersburg meteorite, Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:904030
Long-form Identifier:1:3:904030:4
GUID (UUID V4):57bdef35-d83e-4b36-99c2-7b891f04d137
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
anorthite-wollastonite-silica albite-anorthite diopside-plagioclase KRUTTIVE ROCKS XVI FIG. 15. 16. Skeleton...hydrothermal veins. The group-name stitution series plagioclase between albite is and applied to the ionic...quite subordinate. To those sections of the plagioclase series which hold respectively from 10 to 30...bytownite have been attached. Some analyses of plagioclase feldspar, or of rocks containing it, have shown...that soda-anorthite must be contained in the plagioclase. The present writer found it necessary to make'
Book (edition)
system diopside-albite-anorthite The system plagioclase-pyroxene Crystallization on a cotectic surface...system albitc-anorthite The system diopside-plagioclase Quaternary equilibrium-diagram 12. Melilite crystals...quite subordinate. To those sections- of the plagioclase series which hold from 10 to 30, 30 to 50, 50...bytownite have been attached. Some analyses of plagioclase feldspar, or of rocks containing it, have shown...that soda-anorthite must be contained in the plagioclase. The present writer found it necessary to make
 
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