The new arrivals include the ‘golden felspar’, natural glass and fibrolite from Tanzania.
Mesosomes are invariably associated with a leucosome component and are composed of biotite accompanied by fibrolite, minor quartz, plagioclase and retrograde muscovite and chlorite.
Sillimanite, which occurs both as fibrolite and as prismatic grains, grows across the L-S fabric in part defined by biotite, and is clearly post-kinematic with respect to the type - 1 tectonites.
In sample 17, development of the S-C fabric was postdated by growth of late garnet and fibrolite.
The mineral assemblage is quartz + plagioclase + K-feldspar + biotite + cordierite + andalusite fibrolite.
Definition of fibrolite in US English:
fibrolite
nounˈfībrəˌlīt
another term for sillimanite
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The mineral assemblage is quartz + plagioclase + K-feldspar + biotite + cordierite + andalusite fibrolite.
Mesosomes are invariably associated with a leucosome component and are composed of biotite accompanied by fibrolite, minor quartz, plagioclase and retrograde muscovite and chlorite.
In sample 17, development of the S-C fabric was postdated by growth of late garnet and fibrolite.
The new arrivals include the ‘golden felspar’, natural glass and fibrolite from Tanzania.
Sillimanite, which occurs both as fibrolite and as prismatic grains, grows across the L-S fabric in part defined by biotite, and is clearly post-kinematic with respect to the type - 1 tectonites.