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Essay On Twinning in Feldspar

Geology of Feldspar

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Essay On Twinning in Feldspar

Geology of Feldspar

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LNINNING IN EELDSPAR

Tusinning
loinoing argqulor infesqrowth 0f tuoo O ora crutal qcuns do

thedt eachgrain a ymmetical inege of t neghbour tiotstes


uoth rpet fo it.Jwinainq can occD in three difforent uway a
Twlnning inducea
puin any phanonnena during cutal gouthst0 asqlide
by depoemation due to stress, temperature or both condtions differcat
from those undar which t id orjginalls fomed, or cid On themal trarufazte
to louer mmcy. Snte it doa add qymmicty to 0 cTa, haneng
ths depined by oparation that nvolve eplecthon a a o pare

Yotahon about an ax o hine in the (nrtal and inveion throygh


point he Qdded mNO plone ú called thoin plane. he added roratèno
axs L fwin ax and added centre 0f ymmeiy called fuoinCee

Twinoing mat coomonly houn by foldlspor minaral Fokspay coutture


a g r p Of- alumnasilicare omerals that contaun calcium socum a poturin

Thoy a monocdinic aicnic in thaiy crutal hocue, howeri,


o have

the same fundamantal strvcture:Tuinning my occux by eecfion alog


twin plane pnducung eth iplo o mulitpe froñnig
1otatron eutipe tunoing

flagioclase and Mroolioe are the poldspaL minaal that do uhao Tcdoie
fwrnning utemswo common rwnnng aus in tikeFakpeu ae

AlLite aw and Poieline lauo Albite Photaytetic teinning the


AlLte law xhbted biy Plagi0clase. lhe (ao ndic.are fhat twnni
OCCUS peipondi Cular to the cBLtalloquaphle axu.1rcinictuming

OCCo on Olo planu Plaqioclase alwa denhaed wing the

presenceOf AlL tetwnoing


Duxing the aanoAaton ofNOOclinic orthocdaeo Sadig to
LCroline PoridioewinninqoccOU.Tt alwous ocCus In combinaton
wth albife tunoing in Micxoline astan twnoing aCoce hatched patoem
pbdu@o dsing tha Comblnafion procas Thu dthquishg micalie prom
othes foldspa

Ogthedlase o Sandine podspay oxhiltmonocdinic twnning. oth contacd


and penofiotton twins. Both Contact ond panoftahion tuR Ocwr_ martiy
due toacciderts dorng te qouth og Qutad. Manobach law, (arukao law,
Biaveno law and Swallo tails tuoinsare eibited monodlinic
toinoing.

ManeLachla o.cw on001 plano fo.ming Coatad tuwinCoomony


Observed in themineral othodase

Calsbad (a fomsapenetation twinin fhe mnasol orthocae. Urdo


Corlubod law all cqTas tuinned hae mgroun cyutals uhae e

6otated18 prom the othe about 001 axs Lt salso Common (n


orthodase ad alko sones as diagnastc o Osthoclase henever tE
oCwrS Ton plane
001
Bravtno aw do form a Contact fwin 1nth osthocdase occuing
on 02 axls

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win obsew@d in gupSu OcS On
Swallow ta Commonly
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TNINNING iN HGNAGONAL_SYSTEK

Ihe mat common hoxagonal noralc are Calcite (CaCOs) and Qvartz G0.)
ihey both Shouw the Common types of twiming that are common
heaaqonalMnaal. Calote twns hav two conmon rin loaus tha ae ohsened
in ther crustals.Both of the twin taws are contact. le have Looo] and
the Yhombohedabn Lo i+ h e rhonbohedson CoiT2] can occur a polusyrictic

twins asuting deomaton

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Throo ofhey haxagonal twins arn Shown 0h fue otter hand oy Qartz.The
Boz aw Dauphne aw and dapanase. la. Brozil law 1201 is
paretahon hwin KasotingFrOm trarUOation The Dauphine law ako
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