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Minggu, 2026-01-04 02:31:36solid solution becomes unstable—due to a lower temperature, for example—exsolution occurs and the two phases separate into distinct microscopic to megascopic...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 02:12:49the lowest. Perthite is a typical texture in alkali feldspar, due to exsolution of contrasting alkali feldspar compositions during cooling of an intermediate...
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Kamis, 2026-03-05 10:09:32resulting exsolution results in very fine lamellar and other intergrowths, normally detected only by sophisticated means. However, exsolution in the andesine...
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Kamis, 2026-04-30 11:56:07albite layers. More technically, this micro-structure consists of regular exsolution layers (lamellae) of different alkali feldspars (orthoclase and sodium-rich...
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Kamis, 2026-03-05 12:16:50and by Bøggild (1924). The cause of this optical phenomenon is phase exsolution lamellar structure, occurring in the Bøggild miscibility gap. The effect...
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Minggu, 2023-09-24 01:01:05Graphic texture is commonly created by exsolution and devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks. It is called 'graphic' because the...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-18 23:15:47along twin composition planes, or along planes of weakness due to the exsolution of another mineral. Parting breaks are very similar in appearance to cleavage...
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Senin, 2026-03-23 06:42:09a volcanic eruption. Generally, explosive cryovolcanism is driven by exsolution of volatiles that were previously dissolved into the cryomagma, similar...
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Selasa, 2026-04-28 10:18:19the meteoric iron has a certain nickel concentration that leads to the exsolution of kamacite out of taenite while cooling. Octahedrites derive their name...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:39:27is the exsolution of gas. When heating hard water on the stove, these gas bubbles form on the surface of the pan prior to boiling. Gas exsolution can also...
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Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:59:32consists of inclusions that are the result of crystallographically oriented exsolution crystals within the feldspar crystal. Sunstone refers to its physical...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 15:31:06Retrieved 14 September 2007. Hofmeister, A.M.; Rossman, G.R. (1985). "Exsolution of metallic copper from Lake County labradorite". Geology. 13: 644–647...
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Minggu, 2026-01-11 06:01:51melt through a process known as exsolution. Magma with low water content becomes increasingly viscous. If massive exsolution occurs when magma heads upwards...
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Kamis, 2026-03-05 08:55:01equal proportions the result is a mesoperthite. The intergrowth forms by exsolution due to cooling of a grain of alkali feldspar with a composition intermediate...
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Minggu, 2026-03-01 01:22:14slowly cooling within the earth, sodium-rich albite lamellae form by exsolution, enriching the remaining orthoclase with potassium. The resulting intergrowth...
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Jumat, 2025-01-03 08:10:56It consists of two amphiboles, gedrite and anthophyllite, which form exsolution lamellae that give the rock its typical iridescence. Other common minerals...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 21:43:06the chamber at depths between 1.5 and 4.5 km (5,000 and 15,000 ft), the exsolution of a high-pressure fluid magma formed during cooling and crystallisation...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:06:18a melt, it forms exsolution lamellae because the two components – orthoclase and albite – are unstable in solid solution. Exsolution can be on a scale...
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Selasa, 2026-01-06 01:34:28calcium the necessary time to separate itself from the structure to form exsolution lamellae of calcic clinopyroxene, leaving no pigeonite present. Textural...
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Senin, 2024-12-16 07:29:50A metamorphic reaction is a chemical reaction that takes place during the geological process of metamorphism wherein one assemblage of minerals is transformed...
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Minggu, 2026-04-12 11:42:19cooling of the host rocks, and the ilmenite so produced may form apparent exsolution (trellis type) laminae in magnetite. The texture was once interpreted...
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Kamis, 2025-11-27 04:27:50solution extends towards chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) and digenite (Cu9S5). Exsolution of blebs and lamellae of chalcopyrite, digenite, and chalcocite is common...
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Selasa, 2026-03-24 03:22:48pressure within the reservoir, exsolution and decompression of gas bubbles within the conduit and, potentially, exsolution of bubbles within the magma reservoir...
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Sabtu, 2026-06-06 03:02:31hydrocarbon cycle on Titan, are possibly rising bubbles due to nitrogen exsolution. Kraken Mare, along with other Lakes of Titan, was first discovered by...
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Kamis, 2025-07-24 18:01:54exists at lower temperatures, and, as a result, hornblende often contains exsolution lamellae of grunerite. Hornblende is a common constituent of many igneous...
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Kamis, 2026-05-14 00:06:08size. If these tiny particles travel through a water heater, further exsolution of carbon dioxide occurs due to increased temperature and new crystal...
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Rabu, 2026-01-21 04:56:57volcanics. Alternatively, the fault block traps could have been recharged by exsolution of methane from formation brines as a direct result of the Tertiary uplift...
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Kamis, 2026-03-05 08:41:17solid solution series with intermediate compositions termed anorthoclase. Exsolution of an albite phase does occur; resulting cryptoperthite can best be observed...
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Minggu, 2025-06-22 11:37:42the water level represents a fluid pressure condition that leads to gas exsolution or boiling that in turn causes intense mineralization that can seal cracks...
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Minggu, 2025-11-09 06:19:03exists at lower temperatures, and, as a result, hornblende often contains exsolution lamellae of grunerite. On account of the wide variations in chemical composition...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:47:50(January 11, 2021). "Highly explosive basaltic eruptions driven by CO2 exsolution". Nature Communications. 12 (1). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20354-2. PMC 7801484...
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Senin, 2026-01-12 00:13:28exsolution are aids in interpreting cooling histories of rocks. Perthite is an intergrowth of K-feldspar with albite feldspar, formed by exsolution from...
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Kamis, 2023-07-27 20:46:36distinctive character of feldspar in hypersolvus granite is to present exsolution textures. That is because the high temperature feldspar was ternary (i...
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Minggu, 2026-04-19 03:25:02minerals in rocks but no solid solution. This coexistence may result in exsolution lamellae in cooled ilmenites with more iron in the system than can be...
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Minggu, 2025-11-23 21:36:55twinning planes. The large blue-green minerals are clinopyroxene with some exsolution of orthopyroxene. Thin sections are prepared in order to investigate the...
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Sabtu, 2025-06-28 10:01:38Province, Kenya. It is polymorphous with kyzylkumite. The mineral occurs as exsolution lamellae and particles in rutile, coexisting with kyanite, sillimanite...
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Minggu, 2025-11-02 01:44:52fall Pyroclastic surge An explosive eruption is usually triggered by exsolution of volatiles but there are other ways to create an explosive eruption...
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Senin, 2026-04-20 14:19:28and morphology of vesicles in pumice offer direct evidence of volatile exsolution and degassing dynamics during the eruption that formed the rock. By analyzing...
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Rabu, 2025-05-28 01:50:42pyrrhotite and pentlandite as intergrowths with chalcopyrite. It results from exsolution from chalcopyrite at temperatures below 200 to 210 °C. If cubanite is...
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Rabu, 2026-02-25 10:52:32microcline and albite. A composition falling in this gap will experience exsolution as it cools, where nepheline and kalsilite separate into separate microscopic...
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Jumat, 2026-05-08 13:08:19created a natural barrier. In 1984, the lake experienced a deadly gas exsolution, triggering a violent limnic eruption that killed 37 people. The primary...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 17:43:36of an injection of new silicic magma into the reservoir and volatile exsolution from crystallizing magma. The eruption of the Lava Creek Tuff has been...
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Selasa, 2025-05-27 08:49:49or a subsurface magma body. It can be caused by magma accumulation, exsolution of volatiles, geothermal processes, heating, and tectonic compression...
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Rabu, 2026-02-25 01:43:06crystallizes in many mafic igneous rocks. Titanomagnetite may undergo oxy-exsolution during cooling, resulting in ingrowths of magnetite and ilmenite. Natural...
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Jumat, 2023-09-29 21:21:31is Castle & Lindsley's exsolution silica-pump model. Accordingly, the texture was created as plagioclase formed by exsolution from alkali feldspar during...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 02:58:07Singh, Sandeep; Soto, Alejandro; Soderblom, Jason M. (2019). "Nitrogen Exsolution and Bubble Formation in Titan's Lakes". Geophysical Research Letters....
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Minggu, 2026-02-22 23:43:30intermediate composition alkali feldspars are allowed to cool slowly, exsolution occurs and a perthite structure results. Anorthoclase occurs in high temperature...
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Selasa, 2025-05-27 08:41:55(lamellae barely visible or not visible to the naked eye) to very coarse exsolution textures. Mafic minerals present include amphiboles, biotite, and pyroxenes...
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Selasa, 2024-01-30 09:55:11Z = 8 Identification Color Black Crystal habit Massive, platy aggregates, exsolution lamellae in troilite Cleavage Distinct Fracture Uneven Tenacity Brittle...
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Jumat, 2025-10-10 00:19:51they are cut by numerous thin lathes of plagioclase, which may represent exsolution lamellae; and 3) they appear to be older than the anorthosites in which...
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Senin, 2025-12-08 11:44:27tendency to break along planes of weakness due to pressure, twinning or exsolution. Where these two kinds of break do not occur, fracture is a less orderly...
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Selasa, 2025-09-30 20:48:49twinned pigeonite, followed by exsolution of augite; (2) breakdown of pigeonite to orthopyroxene plus augite; (3) exsolution of augite parallel to the former...
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Kamis, 2026-03-26 23:18:12the cryomagma ascend, the cryomagma is depressurized. This leads to the exsolution of the volatiles out of the cryomagma, forming gas bubbles that help lower...
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Minggu, 2023-02-12 13:39:44as rosettes of hexagonal plates, typically granular, scaly; occurs as exsolution lamenae in franklinite and spinel Cleavage Perfect on {0221} Fracture...
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Kamis, 2026-03-05 12:12:02called moonstone and show Schiller iridescence due to the presence of exsolution lamellae on cooling in the peristerite miscibility gap, ~An5-An18. One...
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Senin, 2025-10-06 05:28:53Ni content – <20% Taenite minor or absent >20% kamacite and taenite in exsolution relationship Sulfides: Mean Ni content – >0.5% <0.5% Overall Texture No...
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Kamis, 2026-04-23 04:45:36the magma ascends, the bubbles grow due to decompression and further exsolution caused by decreasing volatile solubility. Depending on magma viscosity...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 15:09:01Marielle; Pautrat, Alain; Mentré, Olivier (2014). "Reversible Topochemical Exsolution of Iron in BaFe2+2(PO4)2". Angewandte Chemie. 126 (49): 13583–13588. Bibcode:2014AngCh...
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Sabtu, 2022-12-10 17:38:32bursaite unlike those in lillianite are two Bbmm phases that appear to be exsolution products of phase III, which is simply the synthetic analogue of lillianite...
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Minggu, 2025-09-28 03:18:29~550 °C (1,022 °F) (dependent on composition) that the MSS undergoes exsolution. A separate phase, usually a copper-rich sulfide liquid may also form...
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Rabu, 2025-09-10 22:21:12Z = 1; V = 309.72 Å3 Identification Color Brownish orange Crystal habit Exsolution grains within bornite Mohs scale hardness 3.5-4 Luster Metallic Diaphaneity...
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Jumat, 2026-03-27 06:32:48igneous provinces, was also marked by atmospheric loading through the mass exsolution and emission of volatiles, via the process of volcanic degassing. Comparative...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 20:55:37It is thought that the palladium entered the pentlandite during its exsolution from the MSS, and that the palladium came from two sources; a small amount...
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Kamis, 2026-01-29 22:34:49N., T.N.; Deliousi, K.; Malik T.K., T.K.; De Corte, K. (2015). "From exsolution to 'gold sheen': A new variety of corundum". Journal of Gemmology. volume...
Click to read more »Heazlewoodite
Kamis, 2025-09-25 06:25:07saturated of nickel sulfide minerals and is only formed via metamorphic exsolution of sulfur from the lattice of metamorphic olivine. Heazlewoodite is thought...
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Senin, 2026-01-26 20:40:011016/0040-6031(96)02806-7. Grguric, B.A. (2002), Hypogene violarite of exsolution origin from Mount Keith, Western Australia: field evidence for a stable...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-30 07:24:30did not fit the usually accepted models as to either being formed by exsolution from primary K-feldspar or by Na- and Ca-metasomatism along the margins...
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Minggu, 2024-10-13 13:56:05lead-gray Crystal habit Striated, prismatic crystals, inclusions and exsolutions in galena and other silver minerals Twinning Twin plane {010} Cleavage...
Click to read more »Siilinjärvi carbonatite
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 06:22:03grains with diameter of 4–6 mm. Other common textures are myrmekite and exsolution lamellae with calcite. Euhedral grains are only found in carbonatites...
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Rabu, 2026-04-29 23:51:32Lanzafame, Gabriele; Ferlito, Carmelo; Mancini, Lucia (April 2017). "Gas exsolution and bubbles nucleation from the 1669 lava flow of Mount Etna (Italy):...
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Senin, 2026-04-27 17:52:44buoyant within an icy shell, ascent of cryomagma on Europa likely requires exsolution of dissolved volatile species—such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide...
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Minggu, 2025-11-16 05:48:23Sorption, ion exchange, and surface complexation Gas dissolution and exsolution Stable isotope fractionation Radioactive decay Mass Transport: Advection...
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Rabu, 2024-04-10 01:07:48in the octahedral site. A low-temperature solvus in the mineral causes exsolution changing the chemistry of a specimen resulting in confusing variations...
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Selasa, 2025-09-02 00:30:06precipitation, acid-base reactions, ion exchange, and gases dissolution and exsolution. Those chemical processes also happen in terrestrial aquifer system. The...
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Senin, 2025-11-10 02:40:57Sorption, ion exchange, and surface complexation Gas dissolution and exsolution Stable isotope fractionation Radioactive decay Simple phase diagrams or...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-21 07:34:52of the magma. If the melt contains enough dissolved gas, the rate of exsolution will determine the magmas rate of ascension. Mafic melts contain low levels...
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Rabu, 2025-06-25 08:09:32Moltschanova was the first person who exactly described the definition of the exsolution. For a phase separation the initial glass composition must lie in the...
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Rabu, 2025-05-28 03:59:26Fonarev, V. I., Pilugin, S. M., Savko, K. A., and Novikova, M. A., 2006, Exsolution textures of ortho-and clinopyroxene in high-grade BIF of the Voronezh...
Click to read more »Bararite
Selasa, 2025-12-23 01:15:17compressible along the c-axis than the a-axis. Bararite has no known solution or exsolution, but it is always mixed with other substances (cryptohalite, sal ammoniac...
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Selasa, 2026-01-13 17:26:20A.M., and Lasky, S.G., 1932, Covellite-chalcocite solid solution and exsolution: Economic Geology, volume 27, pages 52-86. "Memorial to Alan Mara Bateman"...
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Jumat, 2025-05-23 23:10:12(2017). "Solid molecular nitrogen ( δ -N 2 ) inclusions in Juina diamonds: Exsolution at the base of the transition zone". Earth and Planetary Science Letters...
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