Morphogenesis of quartz crystals twinned after Japan Law

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-97

  Sunagawa, Ichiro ^a   Imai, Hiroyuki ^a   Takada, Masayuki ^b   Hoshino, Yukio ^c  

^a Yamanashi Inst Gemmology/Jewellery   (Japan)

^b Gumma Prefecture ^*  (Japan)

^c Gumma Prefecture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apparent re entrant corner effect; Contact twin vs. penetration twin; Doublet and triplet of X shape morphogenesis; Japan law; Quartz twinning; Single

Indexed keywords

TWINNING;

CO-EXISTING; DOUBLET AND TRIPLET OF X-SHAPE MORPHOGENESIS; JAPAN LAW; QUARTZ CRYSTAL; RE-ENTRANT CORNERS; RE-GROWTH; SINGLE; V SHAPE;

QUARTZ;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MORPHOGENESIS; QUARTZ; TWINNING;

EID: 1542610245     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2004/0016-0091     Document Type: Article

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