Microcline R050150
Name: Microcline
RRUFF ID: R050150
Ideal Chemistry: K(AlSi3O8)
Locality: Crystal Peak area, Park/Teller Counties, Colorado, USA
Source: Dave Bunk Minerals
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Pale blue prismatic crystals
Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis
Mineral Group: [ feldspar (62) ]
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CHEMISTRY 
RRUFF ID: R050150.2
Sample Description: Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry: (K0.95Na0.05)Σ=1Al1.00Si3.00O8
Microprobe Data File: [ Download Excel File ]
RAMAN SPECTRUM 
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Sample Description: Sample is oriented and mounted onto a pin.
Pin ID: L00961
Orientation: Laser parallel to  b*  (0 1 0).     Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to  c   [0 0 1].
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RRUFF ID: R050150
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Sample Description: Unoriented sample
Instrument settings: Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW
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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance) 
RRUFF ID: R050150.1
Sample Description: Powder
Instrument settings: SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR
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POWDER DIFFRACTION 
RRUFF ID: R050150.1
Sample Description: Powder
Cell Refinement Output: a: 8.5680(9)Å    b: 12.9556(8)Å    c: 7.2176(3)Å
alpha: 90.79(2)°    beta: 115.94(1)°    gamma: 87.63(2)°   Volume: 719.81(7)Å3    Crystal System: triclinic
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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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Output file from the Bruker D8 Advance instrument. Includes device headers and XY data.

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REFERENCES for Microcline

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

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Fleischer M (1958) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 43, 1006-1008   [view file]

Finney J J, Bailey S W (1964) Crystal structure of an authigenic maximum microcline, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 119, 413-436   [view file]

Cherry M E, Trembath L T (1979) The disordering of alkali feldspars. I. Dry heating of a microcline perthite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 527-535   [view file]

Ferguson R B (1979) Whence orthoclase and microcline? A crystallographer’s interpretation of potassium feldspar phase relations, The Canadian Mineralogist, 17, 515-525   [view file]

Eggleton R A, Buseck P R (1980) The orthoclase-microcline inversion: A high-resolution transmission electron microscope study and strain analysis, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 74, 123-133

Griffen D T, Johnson B T (1984) Strain in triclinic alkali feldspars: a crystal structure study, American Mineralogist, 69, 1072-1077

Martin R F, Falster A U (1986) Proterozoic sanidine and microcline in pegmatite, Wausau complex, Wisconsin, The Canadian Mineralogist, 24, 709-716   [view file]

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White J C, Barnett R L (1990) Microstructural signatures and glide twins in microcline, Hemlo, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 28, 757-769   [view file]

Mernagh T P (1991) Use of the laser Raman microprobe for discrimination amongst feldspar minerals, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 22, 453-457

Blum A E (1994) Feldspars in weathering, in I. Parson (ed.), Feldspars and their reactions Kluwer Academic Dordrecht, the Netherlands 595-630

Allan D R, Angel R J (1997) A high-pressure structural study of microcline (KAlSi3O8) to 7 GPa, European Journal of Mineralogy, 9, 263-275

Hamilton V E, McSween H Y, Hapke B (2005) Mineralogy of Martian atmospheric dust inferred from thermal infrared spectra of aerosols, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, E12006   [link]

Freeman J J, Wang A, Kuebler K E, Jolliff B L, Haskin L A (2008) Characterization of natural feldspars by Raman spectroscopy for future planetary exploration, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1477-1500   [view file]

Parsons I (2010) Feldspars defined and described: a pair of posters published by the Mineralogical Society. Sources and supporting information, Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 529-551   [view file]

Liu S (2015) Rietveld structure refinement of microcline, European Journal of Mineralogy, 27, 501-510