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Subsolidus crystallization behaviour in the system KAlSi3O8–NaAlSi3O8–H2O

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Ian Parsons*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Marischal College, Aberdeen AB9 1AS

Summary

When gels and glasses of alkali feldspar composition are crystallized hydrothermally below their solidus the crystals present when crystallization is incomplete do not have the same Na:K ratio as the starting material but bear a relation to the starting material analogous to that between crystals and liquids coexisting at the liquidus. This effect has been investigated in the temperature range 700–850 °C at water-vapour pressures between 5000 lb/in.2 and 30000 lb/in.2 Fractionation and normal zoning of crystals may, in principle, occur within fixed bulk compositions held under isothermal, isobaric conditions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1969

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