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Gneiss
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Gneiss Type:
Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance:
Foliated, often with distinct banding (segregation) of minerals; some preferred orientation in micas (platy) or hornblende (prismatic crystals). Medium t...
Element of Month Lithum Boreal v2
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All About Elements: Lithium
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Fun Facts About… Lithium 1. Elemental Lithium can float in mineral oil!
2. Lithium was one of the elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The other tw...
Granite
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Granite Type:
Igneous, intrusive. Texture/Appearance:
Massive, medium to coarse-grained; holocrystalline, sometimes porphyritic. Color:
White, light gray, pink, or red. Mineralogy/Chemistry:
Felsic; composed primarily of q...
Element of Month Lithum Boreal
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All About Elements: Lithium
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Fun Facts About… Lithium 1. Elemental Lithium can float in mineral oil!
2. Lithium was one of the elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The other tw...
BS Element of Month Carbon IA
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All About Elements: Carbon
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Fun Facts About… Carbon 1. Graphine, an allotrope of carbon, is the
strongest, thinnest, and best conductor of heat known to man. It was created by scientists using ordin...
Nepheline
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Nepheline (Na,K) AlSiO4 Crystallography:
Hexagonal; 6. Rarely in small prismatic crystals with base; more commonly massive, compact, and in embedded grains.
Physical Properties: Cleavage: {1010} distinct. Frac...
Hornfels
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Hornfels Type:
Metamorphic, regional. Texture/Appearance:
Homogeneous; dense, fine-grained. Granoblastic; may have porphyroblasts or any of the minerals present.
Color: Varies; light to dark. May be pink, brow...
Arkose
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Arkose Type:
Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance:
Usually coarse-grained, sometimes with pebbles. Angular to subangular, poorly to moderately well-sorted sand grains. No Fossils.
Color: Gray, pink or redd...
Limestone
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Limestone Type:
Sedimentary; chemical or clastic. Texture/Appearance:
Fine to coarsely crystalline; varieties may be dense, compact and graded to brecciated, styliolitic, or oolitic. Stratification usually ind...
Tuff
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Tuff Type:
Igneous; extrusive (pyroclastic). Texture/Appearance:
Clastic texture with angular rock and mineral fragments and lapilli mixed with fine-grained volcanic ash, partly cemented by sedimentary materia...
Hornblende
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Hornblende (Ca,Na)2-3 (Mg,Fe,Al)5 SI6 (Si,Al)2 O22 (OH)2 (Amphibole Group) Crystallography:
Monoclinic: 2/m. Crystals prismatic usually terminated by {011}. May be columnar to fibrous; coarse-to fine-granular.
Physical Pro...
Pegmatitie
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Pegmatite Type:
Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance:
Very coarse-grained, marked by intergrowth of large (up to 1 cm) crystals. In some instances, individual crystals may grow up to several feet.
Color: Varies; mostly l...
WS Element of Month Fluorine boreal final v2
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All About Elements: Fluorine
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Boreal’s All About Elements Series Building Real-World Connections to the Building Blocks of Chemistry
The periodic table of elements is an essential part of any chemistr...
Anorthite
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Anorthite CaAl2Si2O8(An90-100) (Feldspar Group) (see also Plagioclase) Crystallography:
Triclinic; 1. Crystals usually prismatic parallel to c-axis; twinning as in albite. Commonly massive, cleavable, with gra...
Schorl
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Schorl (Tourmaline Group) Na Fe3+2 Al6 (BO3)3 Si6 O18 (OH)4 Crystallography:
Hexagonal -R; 3m. Usually in prismatic crystals with rounded triangular cross- section due to prominent trigonal prism and subordina...
Staurolite
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Staurolite (Fe+2, Mg, Zn)2 Al9 (Si, Al)4 O22 (OH)2 Crystallography:
Monoclinic (pseudo-orthorhombic); 2/m. Crystals prismatic with common forms {110}, {001}, and {101}. Cruciform twins very common (at nearly 9...
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