Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1974
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974metic...9..183d&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics, vol. 9, Sept. 30, 1974, p. 183-197.
Computer Science
Crystal Growth, Feldspars, Lunar Geology, Lunar Rocks, Petrology, Twinning, Crystal Defects, Crystallization, Highlands, Phase Transformations
Scientific paper
Plagioclases in different types of lunar highland rocks (all highly feldspathic) are twinned according to different laws and in different styles. Carlsbad and Carlsbad-albite twins, presumed to be growth twins, occur mainly in rocks which show igneous texture, and which have not been severely brecciated. These two twin laws appear to be absent from cataclastic rocks, including cataclastic anorthosite, possibly because the original twins were preferentially broken up in cataclasis (the composition plane being a plane of weakness). Pericline and lamellar albite twins, presumed to be deformation twins (except for some albite growth twins) occur in all types of rocks, and obvious deformation features, such as bending of lamellae, are well shown in many cataclastic rocks. Surprisingly, some Carlsbad and Carlsbad-albite twins are found in rocks with granoblastic texture, which presumably recrystallized in the solid state.
Dowty Eric
Keil Klaus
Prinz Martin
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