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Approximately 100 springs were sampled as part of a general geochemical survey in a 130 by 140 km multi-mineralized area of the Ouachita Mountains. The study area was subdivided into Area I and Area II based on differences in lithology and mineralization. Area I is composed primarily of the Paleozoic Stanley Shale and the Arkansas Novaculite Formation, and has considerable manganese (often present as psilomelane) and barite mineralization. The barite occurs primarily as replacement deposits in shale in Area I. Area II is composed of Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, and Quaternary alluvium. Mercury, antimony, strontium and barite mineralization is present. The barite mineralization occurs as cement in the Cretaceous sandstone and gravel in this area.The widely prevalent barite cement in Area II is reflected by higher median and upper range values of barium concentration and also higher median and threshold % BaSO4 saturation values. The presence of barite as cement in the sediments of Area II tends to mask the detection of the barite deposits in this area. Approximately 83% of the sites within 1.7 km of known barite mineralization in Area I were characterized by anomalous barium concentration, and 67% within 3.4 km. Anomalous % BaSO4 saturation values and Ba/Sr ratios produced success rates generally similar to those of anomalous barium concentrations. Anomalous strontium concentrations did not prove effective in detecting barite mineralization. 相似文献
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Three areas located in northern Arkansas, U.S.A., representing differing host rock and mineralization, were selected to investigate the usefulness of hydrogeochemical exploration for Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn mineralization. Despite the geologic differences among the areas, there were no great differences in groundwater chemistry and threshold values. Anomalous Pb concentrations, and also anomalous Zn concentrations to a lesser extent, are useful in detecting the Pb-Zn mineralized areas; however, specific deposits could not be located. Because of the low threshold values (about 20 μg/1) for Pb and Zn, spring water must be utilized in order to avoid plumbing contamination. 相似文献
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Iacopo Cavicchini H. Cecilia Heyworth Christopher J. Duffin Claudia Hildebrandt Michael J. Benton 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》2018,129(2):144-158
Rhaetian bone beds have been described from many locations in south-west England, around Bristol. One site that has never been reported is Stowey Quarry, some 13?km south of Bristol. This quarry yielded Lias, and revealed thin Rhaetian units in the quarry floor, including two bone beds, the basal Rhaetian bone bed, and a second, higher bone bed, also within the Westbury Formation. The fossil fauna of both includes elements typical of Rhaetian bone beds elsewhere, but showing differences in faunal composition between the two. The basal bone bed yielded more specimens and more species, with three taxa (Sargodon tomicus, Rhomphaiodon minor and Hybodus cloacinus) exclusive to this bed and eleven identified in total. Severnichthys acuminatus accounts for more than 50% of the countable teeth from the basal bone bed, followed by Gyrolepis albertii with 20%, Lissodus minimus with 14% and Rhomphaiodon minor with 9%. The basal bone bed, as ever, is dominated by chondrichthyans, whereas the upper bone bed is dominated by osteichthyans, which form 90% of the non-dental remains. The only unique taxon is Dapedium, and Gyrolepis albertii is the most abundant species with 45% of countable teeth, followed by Severnichthys acuminatus with 38% and Duffinselache holwellensis with 11%. These faunal differences, and the equally good condition of specimens between both samples confirms that the upper bone bed is independent of the basal bone bed, and is not a reworked subsample. 相似文献
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The Ishpeming Greenstone Belt is an Archean belt in the southern part of the Canadian Shield in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S.A. Two volcanic cycles are preserved in it. The oldest formation, and basal to the first cycle (the Kitchi Schist), consists of mafic metavolcanics, has a major serpentinized ultramafic body near its base, and grades upward to a coarse felsic volcanic breccia at the top of the cycle. This unit in turn is overlain by a sequence of mafic flows that grades upward to interbedded mafic flows and exhalites of the Mona Schist. This sequence has been intruded by the Dead River Pluton.The Ishpeming Greenstone Belt probably represents the keel of a previously much more extensive Greenstone Belt.Gold mineralization occurs associated with mafic basaltic volcanic rocks and serpentinized ultramafics low in the succession, and with carbonate-rich quartz-chlorite-sericite schists and exhalites higher in the sequence. No mineral deposits are now being exploited here. 相似文献
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STUART D. LUDLAM 《Sedimentology》1981,28(1):85-96
In Fayetteville Green Lake, past sedimentation rates can be accurately and precisely estimated by separating annual couplets or varves in dried sediment samples. Two measures were used, which serve as upper and lower limits on estimated sedimentation rate. They agree within 5 % with average annual sedimentation rate in couplets for recent years. Between 3 and 5 replicate samples are needed to reduce the half-width of 95 % confidence intervals on individual couplet sedimentation rates to 30 g m?2 yr?1 about 5 % of average recent rates. In the late 1800s sedimentation rate averaged 392 g m?2 yr?1 and ranged between 324 and 466 g m?2 yr?1, while in the 1970s the rate averaged 581 g m?2 yr?1 by the same measure, and ranged between 384 and 646 g m?2 yr?1. Sedimentation rate averaged for 13 years does not vary over short distances in the profundal zone, but lateral variation in sedimentation rate can be detected for individual years over the same distance. Not all this variation was associated with the non-uniform distribution of dark sublaminae and thin turbidites which cannot be separated from the annual layers. This indicates that although precise estimates of sedimentation rates can be made at different points in the lake, estimates will have to be made at numerous points before annual sedimentation rates for the lake as a whole can be accurately assessed. 相似文献
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Linda A. Johnson John J.W. Rogers Richard M. Nagy 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1976,40(11):1419-1420
The Llano uplift exposes rocks of approximately 1000 m.y. age. The weighted average composition of the exposed crust is: 70.7% SiO2; 0.35% TiO2; 13.6% A12O3; 3.4% total Fe as Fe2O3; 1.1% MgO; 2.6% CaO; 3.3% Na2O; and 4.4% K2O. This composition is similar to, but more potassic, than equivalent estimates for the Canadian shield. 相似文献
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J.S. Oldow 《Journal of Structural Geology》1981,3(1):39-49
The northern Pilot Mountains of west-central Nevada, consist of a complexly deformed terrane of imbricate thrust nappes composed of rocks of Permian(?), Triassic through Jurassic, and possible Cretaceous ages. Three episodes of fold and thrust generation are recognized on the basis of folded thrusts and thrusted folds, and deformation and emplacement of the nappes is constrained as having occurred during the late Mesozoic. Folds are apparently coeval with thrust faults, and fold geometry is used in determining approximate directions of thrust displacement. The history of thrust displacement is complex and involves three directions of motion on a regionally extensive detachment surface, the Luning thrust. The first motion, from NW to SE, results in displacements of the order of several tens of kilometres and is the probable result of NW-SE regional compression. The final two episodes of motion are NE-SW followed by E-W; they result in small displacements and are possibly the product of gravity sliding of the thrust sheet into depressions in the autochthon. Sites of downwarp in the autochthon may have been formed either by load induced subsidence or regional compression. 相似文献
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Theodore J. Bornhorst 《Chemical Geology》1975,15(4):295-302
A small (360 × 180 m) rhyolitic intrusive body in the lower portion of the Portage Lake Lava Series of Michigan's Keweenaw peninsula was mapped and sampled in detail. The rhyolite is one of a number of similar bodies which make up less than 1% of the total volume of this thick Late-Precambrian plateau basalt pile. The rock is a low-calcium rhyolite with fine-grained homogeneous texture and sparse phenocrysts of plagioclase and quartz. Analyses of selected trace and major elements for 21 samples taken from the body reveal a chemical zonation consisting of a core zone enriched in K, Rb and Ba, and a border zone relatively poor in these elements. Little areal difference is found with respect to other elements tested (Mn, Sr, Zr, Ca, Ti, and Fe). This apparently primary zonation seems to result from the migration of K, Rb and Ba during crystallization of the shallow intrusive. Though zoned, the trace-element chemistry of the Fish Cove body is distinct from that of eight other rhyolites in the Portage Lake Lava Series, and suggests that fingerprinting by trace elements might be a fruitful method for identifying and correlating the sources of numerous rhyolitic pebbles in conglomerates interbedded with the basaltlava flows of the Portage Lake Series. 相似文献
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Paul T. Robinson 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1969,22(4):349-360
In north-central Oregon numerous small flows of alkali-olivine basalt occur in the Oligocene to early Miocene John Day Formation. Chemically, these basalts are characterized by relatively low SiO2 and K2O and very high TiO2 and iron. Fifteen analysed specimens (44 to 48 percent SiO2) have an average of 3.6 percent TiO2 and 15 percent total iron. The average composition of the Oregon basalts compares closely with the average hawaiite of the Hawaiian Islands, differing only in having slightly higher iron and slightly lower SiO2 and total alkalis. Closely associated flows of trachyandesite and quartz latite are chemically related to the basalts and probably formed by differentiation of an alkali-olivine basalt magma.Typical basalt specimens have 10 to 15 percent of modal olivine, interstitial alkali feldspar, and abundant clay minerals and chlorophaeite. Textures are subophitic or intersertal and phenocrysts are rare. Plagioclase laths are slightly zoned and range in composition from An68 to An44. Purplish-brown titaniferous augite is the only pyroxene, and ilmenite is the dominant opaque mineral.Distinct differences in composition and age, and the lack of transitional varieties indicate that these basalts are unrelated to the younger Columbia River basalts. They presumably represent a separate parent magma of alkalic affinity that was generated independently within the mantle. 相似文献
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The West Farrington pluton in the North Carolina Piedmont isconcentrically zoned from gabbro-diorite near the chilled marginsto leucogranodiorite in the center. A crystallization modelfor the West Farrington pluton has been derived utilizing chemical,petrographic, field, and experimental data. The model involvessimple in situ fractional crystallization from the margins inward,with minimal contamination, crystal settling and floating, ormetasomatism. Rocks of the pluton can be considered as mixturesof early crystallizing minerals (liquidus or near-liquidus phases)and crystallized interstitial liquids. Relative percentage ofentrapped pore liquid increased with increasing degree of crystallization. The original tonalite magma began crystallizing Fe-Ti spinels,plagioclase, and hornblende within a short temperature interval.Crystallization of these minerals controlled fractionation trends.The initial water content in the magma was probably 2–3per cent; under such conditions water saturation would havebeen reached after about 60 per cent of the magma crystallized,assuming crystallization in the lower epizone at about 2000bars total pressure. 相似文献
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In 1983 water quality monitoring was conducted on peat deposits in Highlands County, Florida, U.S.A. The monitoring objective was to provide initial data on the water quality in the area in order to identify potential problems with environmental licensing of peat harvesting operations on these deposits. The investigation included sampling for in situ and laboratory water analyses, peat core analyses, elutriate tests, and interstitial water quality analyses. The general trends evident from the data are that BOD and COD (and the resulting DO) may change from the control and harvest peatlands, but not consistently. In addition, total suspended solids, organic color, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus concentrations appear to be elevated under disturbed conditions. For metals, the major cations (Ca, Mg, K, Fe) may show an increase under disturbed conditions vs. control. For the remaining metals, some increases may occur, but the changes are essentially unpredictable. 相似文献
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Theodore J. Armbrustmacher 《Precambrian Research》1977,4(1):13-38
Precambrian quartz dolerites and metadolerites of the central Bighorn Mountains form dikes that intrude a Precambrian metamorphic and igneous terrane typical of the Laramide uplifts of the middle Rocky Mountains. They have a restricted range of major- and trace-element compositions and are typical of basalts in the middle stages of tholeiitic fractionation. Fractionation in the direction of iron enrichment occurred by removal of plagioclase. Average element concentrations of the two groups are nearly identical to one another, are comparable to those in Archean metabasalts from numerous shield areas, and are intermediate between those of modern oceanic tholeiites and continental tholeiites. These average concentrations suggest a depth of magma generation and thickness of crust intermediate between those for the oceanic and continental environments. 相似文献
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Michael Wiedmer David R. Montgomery Alan R. Gillespie Harvey Greenberg 《Quaternary Research》2010,73(3):413-424
Geomorphic, stratigraphic, geotechnical, and biogeographic evidence indicate that failure of a Pleistocene ice dam between 15.5 and 26 ka generated a megaflood from Glacial Lake Atna down the Matanuska Valley. While it has long been recognized that Lake Atna occupied ≥ 9000 km2 of south-central Alaska's Copper River Basin, little attention has focused on the lake's discharge locations and behaviors. Digital elevation model and geomorphic analyses suggest that progressive lowering of the lake level by decanting over spillways exposed during glacial retreat led to sequential discharges down the Matanuska, Susitna, Tok, and Copper river valleys. Lake Atna's size, ∼ 50 ka duration, and sequential connection to four major drainages likely made it a regionally important late Pleistocene freshwater refugium. We estimate a catastrophic Matanuska megaflood would have released 500–1400 km3 at a maximum rate of ≥ 3 × 106 m3 s− 1. Volumes for the other outlets ranged from 200 to 2600 km3 and estimated maximum discharges ranged from 0.8 to 11.3 × 106 m3 s− 1, making Lake Atna a serial generator of some of the largest known freshwater megafloods. 相似文献
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M. E. Philcox 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1972,61(2):686-708
The Gower Formation was deposited in two main stages. In the first, crinoid-coelenterate reef complexes, consisting of numerous closely spaced mounds, developed to maximum relief in water about 30 metres deep initially. Complexes are asymmetrical: the well defined windward Marginal Zone has pronounced local relief; the flatter, more extensive Leeward Zone fans out behind a high central area. Equivalent off-reef beds, where correlation is clear, consist of relatively fine skeletal dolomite.The second-stage deposits record a fall in sea level and the filling of first-stage topographic lows by progressively shallower-water sediments. These were mainly laminated carbonate muds and fine sands (Brady/Anamosa facies group). In the Marginal Zone these were deposited at first as steep wedge-beds on earlier mound flanks, together with a distinctive fauna and scattered stromatolites (Brady facies). Mounds expanded laterally while developing a platform on top. Poorly fossiliferous, flatter-lying beds (Laminate-Anamosa) subsequently filled remaining inter-mound hollows. Equivalent deposits in the Leeward Zone consist almost entirely of Laminate-Anamosa. Off-reef equivalents are probably generally similar.The second stage of Gower deposition ended with the accumulation across inter-complex basins of extensive uniform sheets of stromatolites and subordinate laminated muds (Crenulate-Anamosa). Near the reefs Crenulate-Anamosa overlies Laminate-Anamosa; in basin centres it lies directly on beds of the first depositional stage. The stromatolites are believed to have originated in very shallow, perhaps tideless, water with restricted circulation and high salinity.The shallow-water origin of these sediments suggests that reef tops were exposed during second-stage deposition, and consequently accumulated little or no sediment. Filled caves and a slightly earlier erosion surface tend to support this interpretation.
Zusammenfassung Die Sedimente der silurischen Gower-Formation im Staate Iowa wurden in zwei Phasen abgelagert. Während der ersten entwickelte sich in Krinoiden-Coelenteraten Riffkomplexe aus vielen nah benachbarten Kuppen ein Relief in ursprünglich 30 m Wassertiefe. Die Riffkomplexe sind asymmetrisch: die gut definierte Randzone in Windrichtung hat ein ausgeprägtes Detailrelief; hinter einer zentralen Erhebung erstrecken sich die weniger steilen und ausgedehnteren Fächer der Lee-Zone. Soweit korrelierbar, bestehen die riffernen Sedimente aus relativ feinem skeletalem Dolomit.Die Ablagerungen der zweiten Phase repräsentieren eine Senkung des Meeresspiegels; die topographisch tieferen Teile des vorhandenen Reliefs werden mit Sedimenten aus immer geringerer Wassertiefe gefüllt, hauptsächlich mit laminierten Karbonatschlammen und Feinsanden (Brady/Anamosa-Fazies-Gruppe). In der Randzone wurden sie zunächst als steile keilförmige Schichten auf Kuppenhängen abgelagert (Brady/Fazies); diese enthalten eine charakteristische Fauna und einzelne Stromatolithe. Die Kuppen verbreiterten sich entsprechen zu Plateaus. Fossilarme, flacher liegende Schichten (laminierte Anamosa-Fazies) füllten dann die Restsenken zwischen den Kuppen. Die entsprechenden Ablagerungen der Lee-Zone gehören fast ausschließlich zur letzteren Fazies, und rifferne Sedimente sind wahrscheinlich im allgemeinen ähnlich.Am Ende der zweiten Phase der Gower-Formation wurden ausgedehnte einförmige Schichten von Stromatolithen und — untergeordnet — laminierten Schlammen (gewellte Anamosa-Fazies) in den Becken zwischen den Riffkomplexen abgelagert. In Riffnähe wird die laminierte von der gewellten Anamosa-Fazies überdeckt, im Beckenzentrum folgt die letztere direkt auf die Ablagerungen der ersten Phase. Für die Stromatolith-Bildung wird sehr flaches, vielleicht gezeiten-loses Wasser mit beschränkter Zirkulation und hoher Salinität angenommen.Bei Ablagerung dieser Sedimente im Flachwasser müssen die Riffoberflächen während der zweiten Phase trocken gelegen haben, weshalb sie mit wenig oder keinem Sediment überdeckt wurden. Hohlraumfüllungen und eine wenig ältere Erosionsfläche scheinen diese Interpretation zu unterstützen.
Résumé Les sédiments de la formation silurienne Gower dans l'état Iowa furent déposés en deux phases. Pendant la première phase, il se forma un relief, à partier de nombreux pitons sous-marins voisins, dans les complexes de récifs de crinoïdes-coelentérés à l'intérieur d'une profondeur d'eau originelle de 30 m. Les complexes de récifs sont asymétriques. La zone de bordure, bien définie dans la direction du vent, possède un relief de détails marqué; derrière une élévation centrale s'étendent les surfaces moins escarpées et allongées de la zone »Lee«. S'il est possible de les comparer, les sédiments des récifs se composent de dolomites relativement fines.Les dépôts de la deuxième phase représentent un affaissement du niveau de la mer. Les parties topographiques profondes du relief présent seront comblées par des sédiments provenant de profondeurs d'eau toujours plus petites, principalement avec des vases de carbonates en lamelles et des sables fins (groupe de faciès »Brady/Anamosa«). Dans la zone de bordure, ces sédiments furent d'abord déposés sous forme de strates abruptes et cunéiformes sur les versants des coupoles (faciès Brady); ils contiennent une faune caractéristique et des »Stromatolites« particulières. Les coupoles s'étendirent pour se transformer en plateau. Puis, les couches plus basses, pauvres en fossiles (faciès en lamelles Anamosa), remplirent les depressions restantes entre les coupoles. Les dépôts correspondants de la zone »Lee« appartiennent, d'une manière presque exclusive, au dernier faciès et les sédiments loins des récifs sont en général, vraisemblablement, similaires.A la fin de la deuxième phase de la formation Gower, des couches de »Stromatolites« étendués et uniformes ainsi que des vases en lamelles subordonnées (faciès ondulés Anamosa) furent déposées dans les bassins entre les complexes de récifs. A proximité des récifs, le faciès en lamelles sera recouvert par le faciés ondulé Anamosa; dans le centre du bassin, le dernier faciès suit immédiatement les dépôts de la première phase. Pour la formation de »Stromatolites« on présume l'action d'eau à bas niveau, peut être sans marées, mais avec des courants limités et de la salinités élevée.Pendant la sédimentation de ces couches dans l'eau basse, les surfaces des récifs doivent avoir été à sec durant la deuxième phase. C'est pourquoi elles ne sont couvertes que de peu de sédiment ou pas du tout. Le remplisage de cavernes et une surface d'érosion un peu plus ancienne semblent supporter cette interprétation.
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A series of basaltic and andesitic lavas from three centers in the Cascades (Lassen, Medicine Lake, Mt. Shasta) have been investigated. The lavas are weakly porphyritic, containing phenocrysts of plagioclase, augite, and olivine or orthopyroxene; these phases are also found in the groundmass. Titanomagnetite is a groundmass phase in most lavas but it appears to be absent in some. A sub-calcic augite is found in the groundmass in some of the basic lavas. Orthopyroxenes are present only in the salic lavas and show an increase in calcium with increasing iron. The range in composition shown by both phenocryst and groundmass plagioclase is very similar except that the phenocrysts extend to slightly more calcic compositions. The residual glasses in many of the lavas have a rhyolitic composition. However, only those from the Shasta andesites have normative salic constituents that plot near the ternary minimum in the Ab-Or-Qtz system at 500 bars. Both chemical and mineralogical data allow the lavas of the different centers to be distinguished from one another. The most likely origin for the orogenic lavas of the Cascades is by partial melting of the upper mantle. 相似文献
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E.H.Timothy Whitten 《Tectonophysics》1976,36(1-3)
Subsurface Cretaceous shallow-water sedimentary rocks of the exposed continental shelf between New York and southern Florida provide evidence of two periods of relatively high sedimentation and subsidence rates. North and south of the Cape Fear and Peninsula Arches, Late Aptian to Early Albian rates range from 50 to over 150 meters/ million years; in Coniacian/Santonian time, rates exceeding 30 meters/million years occur sporadically, even across the area of the Arches. A common, global phenomenon that affected both cratons and continental shelves is believed to have caused these periods of relatively rapid basin subsidence and consequent rapid sediment accumulation. 相似文献
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The techniques of electron probe microanalysis and x-ray diffractometry have been utilized in a study of the sillimanite-potassium
feldspar isograd in western Maine. The isograd reaction is theoretically a discontinuous one, calling for the nearly instantaneous
loss of muscovite and crystallization of sillimanite and orthoclase, with a small contribution of albite from the pre-existing
plagioclase. In fact, muscovite coexists with orthoclase, sillimanite, and plagioclase for a distance of at least seven miles
from the isograd (marked by the initial coexistence of orthoclase and sillimanite). In this assemblage, muscovite has an extremely
narrow range of composition, about an average of Ms93.5Pg6.5. A possible explanation for the divariant character of the isograd reaction is that, during dehydration, PH2O slowly increased from initial values less than Ptotal + rock strength, under conditions of low permeability, the actual value of PH2O being controlled by a buffer assemblage and local conditions of P and T. An alternative explanation postulates the flattening
of thermal gradients following the onset of fractional melting.
The isograd reaction is dependent in only a minor way upon the anorthite content of the plagioclase. Below the isograd, a
continuous reaction takes place leading to a diminution in paragonite content of muscovite stable in the presence of quartz.
It is possible that this reaction leads to the nearly ubiquitous normal zoning of the plagioclase.
Changes in the composition of biotite at the isograd are not conspicuous, and can be satisfactorily explained by the release
of Mg, Fe, and Ti impurity from the muscovite, and a continuous reaction between ilmenite, quartz, and muscovite. Garnets
are not abundant and are high in Mn, both facts probably due to the low pressure of metamorphism, The presence of garnet probably
relates to the Mn content of the rock, and seems to be independent of the Mg/Fe ratio of the biotite. The garnets are zoned
with respect to Mn and Mg, but often Mn is enriched and Mg depleted in the marginal zone. The Mg/Fe ratio of the biotite varies
twofold depending on the presence or absence of pyrrhotite. The transition: microcline → orthoclase depends upon the amount
of dissolved albite; the polymorph is orthoclase in the pelitic schists but microcline in the calc-silicate rocks which are
much lower in sodium. The plagioclases are of “low” structural type, although
is slightly greater than many other “low” plagioclases. A correlation of d(002) of muscovite and paragonite solid solution
for the range 0 to 20 % paragonite is given. An appreciable positive volume of mixing for the binary system muscovite-paragonite
is indicated. 相似文献