Anorthite - anorthite

Japanese: 灰長石 - かいちょうせき(英語表記)anorthite
Anorthite - anorthite

Anorthite is one of the six types of plagioclase, and is the most calcium-rich mineral. It often forms short columnar crystals with simple crystal faces. It does not usually coexist with quartz. There are cases where anorthite is found as a phenocryst of basalt or as a crystal formed in basaltic magma that is erupted by a volcanic eruption and deposited with volcanic ash and lapilli. The anorthite megacrysts found around Miyake Island in Tokyo and Lake Kuttara in Hokkaido, which belong to this type of occurrence, are world famous. It also occurs in orthopyroxene gabbro, and in limestone, dolomite, and rocks that are low in silica and rich in calcium and have been subjected to relatively high-temperature metamorphism. The name comes from the Greek word meaning that the mineral is triclinic and not straight, and the Japanese name comes from its chemical composition.

[Satoshi Matsubara]

[Reference items] | Basalt | Triclinic | Plagioclase | Orthopyroxene | Gabbro [Supplementary materials] | Anorthite (data note)
Anorthite
Produced on the outer rim of Lake Kuttara, Shiraoi-cho, Shiraoi-gun, Hokkaido ©Shogakukan ">

Anorthite


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

斜長石を6種に細分したときの1種で、もっともカルシウム分に富む鉱物。単純な結晶面からなる短柱状結晶をなすことが多い。石英と共存しないのが普通である。玄武岩の斑晶(はんしょう)、あるいは玄武岩質マグマ中に生成されていた結晶が火山爆発によって噴出され、火山灰や火山礫(れき)とともに堆積(たいせき)する例がある。これらの産状に属する東京都三宅(みやけ)島、北海道倶多楽(くったら)湖周辺の灰長石巨晶は世界的に有名である。ほかに、斜方輝石斑糲(はんれい)岩中に、また、石灰岩、苦灰岩あるいはケイ酸分に乏しくカルシウム分に富んだ岩石が比較的高温の変成作用を受けた岩石中にも産する。名称は、この鉱物が三斜晶系であり、まっすぐでないという意味のギリシア語から由来し、和名は化学組成による。

[松原 聰]

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灰長石
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灰長石


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