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⇱ Perthite from Zomba-Malosa Complex, Southern Region, Malawi


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Perthite from
Zomba-Malosa Complex, Southern Region, Malawi

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Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:Feldspar Group var: Perthite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Perthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Zomba-Malosa Complex, Southern Region, Malawi
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1429628
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1429628:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northern part of the Chilwa alkaline province, Malawi A. R. Woolley & G. C. Jones S U M M A R Y: The...alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites lies at the southern end of the East African rift, and is unique within...reached the base of the crust and it was from this region that trachyte magmas were produced by melting of...continuously from the Red Sea to just S of Lake Malawi. At its southern extremity it breaks up into a series of...erosion. Although the province is centred on southern Malawi, its rocks are also found in adjacent parts
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vitreous smoky quartz and decimetric white K-feldspar perthite crystals. Both these minerals are elongated along...across the interface from the brighter region to the darker gray region there is a net decrease of U and Mn...was a clearly distinct bright-gray or dark-gray region in SEM-BSE images could not be recognized, either...Kragero, Norway (Tarantino and Zema 2005) Zomba-Malosa, Malawi (Johnsen et al. 1999) Elba Island, Italy...crystal (ixi) making a bridge between two amorphous region of samarskite-(Y) (sam). (b and c) SAED patterns
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
review of five decades of research into an alkaline complex in South Greenland, with new trace-element and...November 2012; AE: T. Riley] ABSTRACT The Kûngnât Complex (12751.8 Ma) in the Gardar Alkaline Province,...peralkaline granites include the Zomba–Malosa complex, Chilwa alkaline province, Malawi (Woolley and Jones, 1987)...graben, Norway (Oftedahl, 1978), the Evisa-Calasima complex, Corsica (Bonin, 1988), plutons of the Velasco...ringcomplexes (Bowden et al., 1987) and Center 1, Coldwell Complex, Ontario (Mitchell and Platt, 1978; Platt and Mitchell
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
samarskite-(Y); Vigezzo valley 1. Introduction Complex REE–Nb–Ta–Ti oxides (aeschynite-, euxenite-, and...non-metamict samarskite-(Y) from Eifel volcanic region, Germany, revealed a unique cation-ordered niobate...related to layered, Laacher See, Eifel volcanic region, Germany, revealed a unique cation-ordered niobate...is located in the Central Alps, within the SSB (Southern Steep Belt) of the Alpine nappes. It extends for...a medium-grained intermediate unit composed of perthite K-feldspar, flakes of silvery-green muscovite
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Report (volume)
northern part of the Chilwa alkaline province, Malawi 335 BOWDEN, P., BLACK, R., MARTIN, R. F., IKEI...EMELEUS, C. H. Mid-Proterozoic alkaline magmatism in southern Greenland: the Gardar province 449 LARSEN, L...classic alkaline provinces, such as East Africa, southern Greenland and the Kola Peninsula, are included...however. The Chilwa alkaline province in Malawi, at the southern end of the rift, is an essentially intrusive...lithospheric mantle is old and will have had as complex a metamorphic and magmatic history as the overlying
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Book
silicate that has been found only in the Ilimaussaq complex in Greenland, although there it is relatively abundant...fine-grained mass. The rock illustrated is from a region near Oslo, Norway. Samples of it were brought to...nepheline-syenite from Kangerdluarsuk, the Ilimaussaq complex, Greenland. The rock consists mainly of feldspar...first described) or after a landscape, county, or region in which the type locality was situated. Aragonite...small faces belonging to {110}, from the Gardiner complex, Greenland. Field of view: 44 x 75 mm. fore {hkl}
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Book (edition)
Class 53 Insular SiO, Groups and Other Anions or Complex Cations Borosilicates and Some Beryllosilicates...followed in this edition. The many and often very complex silicate minerals are here classified for the first...may be less for simple structures or more for complex ones. Typically, the projection is down the shortest...but ant predomin the to refers label The true. complex structures this may not be by species in a site...appearance of its surfaces in reflected light. It is a complex property that depends on a mineral’s reflectivity;
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