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Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-Dee: Phase Transitions Myrmektite
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Solid State Phase Transformations
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Silica: Rapid Cooling
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Metastable tridymite and cristobalite are common in acid volcanic rocks
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Silica: Rapid Cooling
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Solid State Phase Transformations
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Solid State: Exsolution
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Alkali Feldspar
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High Temperature Alkali Feldspar Found in volcanic rocks Anorthoclase, Mt Erebus
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Low Temperature Alkali Feldspar Found in plutonic rocks
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Low Temperature Alkali Feldspar Found in plutonic rocks
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Plagioclase Feldspar Plagioclase Feldspars Two Feldspars Perthite Microcline without perthite and anorthite
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Pyroxenes
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Ca-poor Px Ca-rich Px Augite Temperature
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Pyroxenes
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Inverted Pigeonite 001 100 Thickest along the 001 plane
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Iron Meteorites and Cooling Rates Widmanstatten Texture Kamacite (low-Ni metal) Taenite (high-Ni metal)
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Iron Meteorites and Cooling Rates
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Liquid Immiscibility
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Oldoinyo Lengai Gregory Rift, Tanzania
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Liquid Immiscibility Natrocarbonatite lavas
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Natrocarbonatite Lava
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Liquid Immiscibility Explosive eruptions of mixed silicate (nephelinite) – carbonatite ash Carbonatite melt exsolves by liquid immiscibility from a nephelinite magma chamber
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