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  • Thumbnail for Hornblende
    Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals. It is not a recognized mineral in its own right, but the name is used as a general or field term...
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  • Ellery, the Hornblende Bluffs, Heth Ridge and Mount Send are to the west. To the north, near its mouth, it passes Northrup Head, Whited Inlet and Belousov...
    5 KB (680 words) - 17:28, 21 January 2024
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    often small grains of hornblende. Extensive recrystallization often goes on, and the ultimate product is a spotted rock with white rounded patches of scapolite...
    13 KB (1,535 words) - 22:08, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for El Capitan Granite
    orthoclase, and both feldspars — orthoclase and plagioclase — are white. Hornblende is rare, compared to other Yosemite granites. Most black minerals...
    5 KB (301 words) - 00:20, 10 June 2024
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    also extends towards hornblende and arfvedsonite. There is not a continuous series between calcic clinoamphiboles, such as hornblende, and low-calcium amphiboles...
    15 KB (1,556 words) - 20:00, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diorite
    silicate minerals plagioclase feldspar (typically andesine), biotite, hornblende, and sometimes pyroxene. The chemical composition of diorite is intermediate...
    23 KB (2,458 words) - 11:51, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amphibolite
    (/æmˈfɪbəlaɪt/) is a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase feldspar, but with little or no...
    9 KB (1,012 words) - 14:30, 9 January 2024
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    Schist (redirect from Hornblende schist)
    with a large garnet crystal (black) in a matrix of quartz and feldspar (white and gray grains) and parallel strands of mica (red, purple and brown). View...
    17 KB (1,847 words) - 12:59, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hornfels
    actinolite and chlorite. This gives way to hornblende, plagioclase, pyroxene, and garnet in the hornblende hornfels facies, which in turn gives way to...
    17 KB (2,160 words) - 14:08, 17 August 2024
  • minerals, usually hornblende, pyroxene or a feldspar mineral, and may need to be named after their phenocryst mineral, such as 'hornblende-bearing felsite'...
    6 KB (655 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2024
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    the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Plagioclase phenocrysts (white) and hornblende phenocryst (dark; intergrown with plagioclase) are set in a fine...
    10 KB (1,155 words) - 22:04, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lamprophyre
    contains biotite and plagioclase. Vogesite contains hornblende and orthoclase. Spessartite contains hornblende and plagioclase. Monchiquite contains no feldspar...
    17 KB (2,188 words) - 14:38, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Granite
    feldspar and quartz with scattered darker biotite mica and amphibole (often hornblende) peppering the lighter color minerals. Occasionally some individual crystals...
    57 KB (6,623 words) - 13:06, 21 November 2024
  • (variety of fluorite) Anyolite (metamorphic rock - zoisite, ruby, and hornblende) Aquamarine (light blue variety of beryl) Argentite (high temperature...
    43 KB (2,840 words) - 16:56, 26 November 2024
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    growth, but rather through the mixture of chalcedony and oxidized iron hornblende. Dendritic agate also displays vegetative features, including fern-like...
    21 KB (2,042 words) - 05:14, 29 October 2024
  • contains only hornblende, has the same composition as some of the camptonites of the same locality that contain feldspar and hornblende of a different...
    57 KB (7,059 words) - 22:35, 1 September 2024
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    suite. There is a moderate quantity of phenocrysts, including biotite, hornblende, ilmenite, hypersthene, magnetite and plagioclase, with little apatite...
    73 KB (8,412 words) - 00:38, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silicate mineral
    series Tremolite – Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 Actinolite – Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2 Hornblende – (Ca,Na) 2–3(Mg,Fe,Al) 5Si 6(Al,Si) 2O 22(OH) 2 Sodium amphibole group...
    20 KB (1,897 words) - 18:21, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halleflinta
    felsites and porphyries. Mica, iron oxides, apatite, zircon, epidote and hornblende may also be present in small amount. The more micaceous varieties form...
    2 KB (242 words) - 14:41, 31 May 2024
  • Archived from the original on Aug 6, 2022. "Colour RAL 9012 / Clean room white (White and black shades) | RAL colour chart UK". Retrieved 2020-12-16. "A Standard...
    316 KB (419 words) - 19:31, 23 October 2024
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