Feldspar mineralogy

Table of Contents

Copyright; List Of Publications
Foreword To The Second Edition
Acknowledgments; Selected Reference Works
Chapter 1. The Chemistry, Structure And Nomenclature Of Feldspars
Chapter 2. Aluminum-Silicon Order In Feldspars: Domain Textures And Diffraction Patterns
Chapter 3. Lattice Parameters, Composition And Al,Si Order In Alkali Feldspars
Chapter 4. Lattice Parameters And Determinative Methods For Plagioclase And Ternary Feldspars
Chapter 5. Optical Properties Of Feldspars
Chapter 6. Subsolidus Phase Relations In The Alkali Feldspars With Emphasis On Coherent Phases
Chapter 7. Microstructure, Kinetics And Mechanisms Of Alkali Feldspar Exsolution
Chapter 8. Diffusion In Feldspars
Chapter 9. Phase Equilibria Of Plagi0clase
Chapter 10. Exsolution Textures In Ternary And Plagioclase Feldspars; Interference Colors
Chapter 11. Color In Feldspars
Chapter 12. Some Chemical Properties Of Feldspars
Chapter 13. Deformation Of Feldspars
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Indexing Feldspar Powder Patterns
References

Volume 2 of Reviews in Mineralogy displays the Short Course on Feldspar Mineralogy in Salt Lake City in October 1975. The workshops on x-ray single-crystal, powder diffraction methods and electron optical techniques as applied to the study of feldspars are the substance of which became the nine chapters of the first edition of Feldspar Mineralogy.
It will be noted by readers experienced with feldspars that there are many new ideas appearing in Chapters 3, 4 and 5 that have neither received scrutiny by review (other than ourselves) nor survived practical tests of time in the research community. There is some danger in this, but the editor decided the greater risk was to produce a review volume soon to be outdated. Inevitably, given the different goals of individual authors in their assigned topics, some repetition of material has occurred, although usually with quite different emphases. Chapters 1, 2, 9 and 10, in which plagioclase structures and diffraction patterns and their Al,Si distributions, phase equilibria and exsolution textures are featured, are notable in this regard.