Average Structures of Alkali and Plagioclase Feldspars: Systematics and Applications
Average Structures of Alkali and Plagioclase Feldspars: Systematics and Applications
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碱长石和斜长石的平均结构:系统学和应用
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10.1007/978-94-015-6929-3_1
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1984
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P. Ribbe
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P. Ribbe
The structural systematics of alkali and plagioclase feldspars and the details of their various space group symmetries are reviewed in relation toA-cation chemistry and Al,Si content, to A1,Si order-disorder, and to temperature. Pseudosymmetry and the site nomenclature arising from it are described in the context of displacive and diffusive phase transformations. The relation betweenrealstructures (which may involve doubled unit cells, antiphase domains, and elaborate superstructures, as well as spinodal and submicroscopic exsolution textures and resuloing strained phases) andaveragestructures is established. The average structure concept involves “projecting” the steric details of the real structure onto the Cī albite orC2/msanidine cell which contain only oneA-cation site and 4 or 2 symmetrically nonequivalent tetrahedral sites,respectively. Thus an intensely complex ‘e’-plagioclase or aPī or transitional anorthite (withc ~14.2 Å) may be reduced to a simplified, “average” structural model which has its primary usefulness in establishing an understanding of the variation of easily measured metric parameters and optical properties.The new method of Kroll and Ribbe (1983) for converting the mean tetrahedral bond lengths obtained from crystal structure refinements to Al/(Al+Si) contents of particular tetrahedral (T) sites is reiterated, and most modern refinements of alkali and plagioclase structures are re-evaluated and systematically examined in relation to their lattice parameters, which are themselves—for the most part—measures of theaveragestructure. Revised compositional and structural state determinative methods are presented, including theb-c, α*-γ*, and [110],[1ī0] plots for alkali feldspars and [110],[1ī0], Δ131 and γ plots for plagioclases. The use of the optic axial angle 2V as a precise measure of structural state in K-rich alkali feldspars is described (from Su et al., 1983a,b).