Incommensurate phase in the kosmochlor-diopside join: A new polymorph of clinopyroxene

American Mineralogist

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1605-1607

  Sakamoto, Shizue ^a   Shimobayashi, Norimasa ^a   Kitamura, Masao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY;

CLINOPYROXENES; INCOMMENSURATE PHASE; SATELLITE REFLECTIONS;

DIFFRACTION PATTERNS;

CATION; CLINOPYROXENE; DIOPSIDE; KOSMOCHLOR; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0344530824     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2003-1024     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Bence, A.E. and Albee, A.L. (1968) Empirical correction factors for the electron microanalysis of silicates and oxides. Journal of Geology, 76, 382-403.
2. Carpenter, M.A. (1980) Mechanisms of exsolution in sodic pyroxenes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 71, 289-300.
3. Champness, P.E. (1973) Speculation on an order-disorder transformation in omphacite. American Mineralogist, 58, 540-542.
4. Kitamura, M. and Morimoto, N. (1984) The modulated structure of the intermediate plagioclases and its change with composition. In W.L. Brown, Ed., Feldspars and feldspathoids, structures, properties and occurrences, 95pp. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht.
5. Korekawa, M. (1967) Theorie der Satellitenreflexe. Habilitationsshrift Ludwigs-Maximilians Universität. München.
6. 2 water-vapour pressure. Mineralogical Magazine, 33, 625-634.
7. Sakamoto, S. and Takasu, A. (1996) Kosmochlor from the Osayama ultramafic body in the Sangun metamorphic belt, southwest Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 102, 49-52.
8. Tsujimori, T. and Takasu, A. (1994) High-P/T type tectonic blocks associated with the Osayama ultramafic body in the Sangun metamorphic belt, northwestern Okayama Prefecture. Abstracts of the 101st Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, 245.
9. Yagi, K. (1966) The system acmite-diopside and its bearing on the stability relations of natural pyroxenes of the acmite-hedenbergite-diopside series. American Mineralogist, 51, 976-1000.