Crystallography rocks! #5
Like a colorful coral in the Turkish sea: this is a fine-grained association of plagioclase and worm-like quartz (“myrmekite”) in an amphibolite-facies metapelite (kinzigite) from the Ivrea Zone (Italy). Quartz forms the worm-like thin parts and, after feldspar, is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust.
See more MicROCKScopica images by Bernardo Cesare here: http://ift.tt/Y018XI
from ZEISS Group's Facebook Wall
Like a colorful coral in the Turkish sea: this is a fine-grained association of plagioclase and worm-like quartz (“myrmekite”) in an amphibolite-facies metapelite (kinzigite) from the Ivrea Zone (Italy). Quartz forms the worm-like thin parts and, after feldspar, is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust.
See more MicROCKScopica images by Bernardo Cesare here: http://ift.tt/Y018XI
from ZEISS Group's Facebook Wall
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