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