Experimentally deformed feldspar aggregates

 

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Experimentally deformed feldspar aggregates

 

Starting material / cataclastic flow / regime 1

 

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Tanco albite (TA) starting material (An1).

Tanco albite (TA) starting material. Very pure albite (An1) aggregate (~1% apatite and trace of muscovite) from border zone of Tanco pegmatite, Ontario. Average grain size ~200 µm; most grains contain growth twins. In some blocks of this material the lath-shaped grains are randomly oriented whereas in others they are quite strongly aligned.