Actinolite Thin Section

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Actinolite thin section. Tremolite has a greater presence of magnesium over iron whereas actinolite has a greater presence of iron over magnesium. Colour colourless blue green. Actinolite and tremolite share several recognized varieties.

Mountain leather a thickly fibrous and leathery variety has a silky luster a soft felt like feel and elastic fiber s. Actinolite in actinolite schist plane polars actinolite in actinolite schist crossed polars. Actinolite in thin section thin section gigapans.

Actinolite actinolite in quartz actinolite replacing spinifex olivine in a meta komatiite scanning electron micrograph of actinolite. Actinolite an amphibole mineral in the tremolite actinolite series of calcium magnesium and iron silicates. Tremolite is a relatively common mineral in some metamorphic rocks.

Actinolite thin section photomicrographs are taken in plane polarized light and cross polarized light and can easily be recognized under the microscope. Click on the image to see a larger version with ppl xpl rollover. Actinolite ca 2 mg fe 2 5 si 8 o 22 oh f 2 named in 1794 by richard kirwan from the greek aktina for ray and lithos for stone in allusion to the fibrous nature of the original specimens.

Actinolite is an amphibole silicate mineral with the chemical formula ca 2 mg 4 5 2 5 fe 2 0 5 2 5 si 8 o 22 oh 2 it is a member of the amphibole silicate mineral family. Tremolite and actinolite are two very similar minerals that form a series with each other and essentially share the same chemical formula. Tremolite may weather to talc and both tremolite and actinolite may alter to chlorite or.

Actinolite ppl actinolite plane polars. Sample rt 2a thin section photograph of an actinolite crystal in an orientation where only one cleavage is visible. Tremolite and actinolite are two very similar minerals that form a series with each other and essentially share the same chemical formula.