R040129 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Albite R040129

Name: Albite
RRUFF ID: R040129
Ideal Chemistry: Na(AlSi₃O₈)
Locality: LaChance Quarry, Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Source: Bob Downs
Owner: RRUFF
Description: Colorless fragment of a tabular single crystal. Characterized in the study by Che and Zega (2023)
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:	R040129.2
Sample Description:	Microprobe Fragment
Measured Chemistry:	(Na_0.99K_0.01)Al_1.00Si_3.00O₈

RAMAN SPECTRUM

RRUFF ID:

Sample Description:

Sample is oriented, mounted onto a pin and polished

Pin ID:

L00143

Orientation:

Laser parallel to -a* (-1 0 0). Fiducial mark perpendicular to laser is parallel to -b [0 -1 0].

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Raman Mode Analysis

BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS

RRUFF ID:

R040129

Wavelength:

Sample Description:

Unoriented sample

Instrument settings:

Thermo Almega XR 532nm @ 100% of 150mW

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INFRARED SPECTRUM (Attenuated Total Reflectance)

RRUFF ID:

R040129.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Instrument settings:

SensIR Durascope on a Nicolet Magna 860 FTIR

Resolution:

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POWDER DIFFRACTION

RRUFF ID:

R040129.1

Sample Description:

Powder

Cell Refinement Output:

a: 8.1393(6)Å b: 12.7844(7)Å c: 7.1592(2)Å
alpha: 94.262(6)° beta: 116.612(3)° gamma: 87.647(6)° Volume: 664.17(5)Å³ Crystal System: triclinic

File Type Information

Calculated diffraction file.

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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 Albite
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]
Gahn J G, Berzelius J (1815) Underfökning af nagra i grannskapet af Fahlun funna Fossilier, Afhandlingar i Fysik, Kemi och Mineralogi, 4, 148-216 [view file]
Rose G (1823) Ueber den Feldspath, Albit, Labrador und Anorthit, Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie, 73, 173-208 [view file]
Rose M G (1824) On felspar, albite, labrador, and anorthite, The Annals of Philosophy, 7, 49-59 [view file]
Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]
Ferguson R B, Traill R J, Taylor W H (1957) The crystal structure of low-temperature and high-temperature albites, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 759-760
Currie K L (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh annual meeting: On the solubility of albite in supercritical water, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 664-664 [view file]
Bambauer H U, Corlett M, Eberhard E, Viswanathan K (1967) Diagrams for the determination of plagioclases using X-ray powder methods (Part III of laboratory investigations of plagioclases), Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 47, 333-349
Middleton G V (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Albite of secondary origin, after perthite, in sandstones of the charny formation, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 300-300 [view file]
Subbarao K V (1969) An intergrowth between albite and sodalite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 721-723 [view file]
Phillips M W, Colville A A, Ribbe P H (1971) The crystal structures of two oligoclases: a comparison with low and high albite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 133, 43-65 [view file]
Sturt B A, Ramsay D M (1971) Observation on "An intergrowth between albite and sodalite", The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 904-904 [view file]
Prewitt C T, Sueno S, Papike J J (1976) The crystal structures of high albite and monalbite at high temperatures, American Mineralogist, 61, 1213-1225 [view file]
Piwinskii A J, Duba A, Ho P (1977) The electrical conductivity of low and high albite throughout its melting interval at 100 kPa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 196-197 [view file]
Keefer K D, Brown G E (1978) Crystal structures and compositions of sanidine and high albite in cryptoperthitic intergrowth, American Mineralogist, 63, 1264-1273 [view file]
Winter J K, Okamura F P, Ghose S (1979) A high-temperature structural study of high albite, monalbite, and the analbite - monalbite phase transition, American Mineralogist, 64, 409-423 [view file]
Harlow G E, Brown G E (1980) Low albite: an X-ray and neutron diffraction study, American Mineralogist, 65, 986-995
Kline S W (1984) Iron-rich hornblende plus albite in low-pressure metabasites, Chibougamau, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 391-399 [view file]
Pouliot G, Trudel P, Valiquette G, Samson P (1984) Armenite - thulite - albite veins at Rémigny, Quebec: the second occurrence of armenite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 453-464 [view file]
Wenk H R, Kroll H (1984) Analysis of P1, I1, and C1 plagioclase structures, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 107, 467-487
Carpenter M A, McConnell J D C, Navrotsky A (1985) Enthalpies of ordering in the plagioclase feldspar solid-solution, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 49, 947-966
FitzGerald J D, Parise J B, Mackinnon I D R (1986) Average structure of an An48 plagioclase from the Hogarth Ranges, American Mineralogist, 71, 1399-1408 [view file]
Su S C, Ribbe P H, Bloss F D (1986) Alkali feldspars: Structural state determined from composition and optic axial angle 2V, American Mineralogist, 71, 1285-1296 [view file]
Ferguson R B, Ball N A (1987) Quantitative phase-analysis of Rb-enriched maximum microcline and low albite by X-ray powder diffractometry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 337-345 [view file]
Brown W L, Parsons I (1989) Alkali feldspars: ordering rates, phase transformations and behaviour diagrams for igneous rocks, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 25-42 [view file]
Armbuster T, Bürgi H B, Kunz M, Gnos E, Brönnimann S, Lienert C (1990) Variation of displacement parameters in structure refinements of low albite, American Mineralogist, 75, 135-140 [view file]
Dickinson J E, Scarfe C M (1990) Raman spectroscopic study of glasses on the join diopside-albite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54, 1037-1043 [link]
Mernagh T P (1991) Use of the laser Raman microprobe for discrimination amongst feldspar minerals, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 22, 453-457
Fleet M E (1992) Tetrahedral-site occupancies in reedmergnerite and synthetic boron albite (NaBSi₃O₈), American Mineralogist, 77, 76-84 [view file]
Richards R P, Ercit T S (1992) Baveno-twinned albite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 207-214 [view file]
Swanson S E, Fenn P M (1992) THe effect of F and Cl on the kinetics of albite crystallization: a model for granitic pegmatites?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 549-559 [view file]
Blum A E (1994) Feldspars in weathering, in I. Parson (ed.), Feldspars and their reactions Kluwer Academic Dordrecht, the Netherlands 595-630
Downs R T, Hazen R M, Finger L W (1994) The high-pressure crystal chemistry of low albite and the origin of the pressure dependency of Al/Si order-disorder, American Mineralogist, 79, 1042-1052 [view file]
Pinckston R D, Smith D G W (1994) Mineralogy of the Lake zone, Thor Lake rare-metals deposit, N.W.T., Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32, 516-532
Lynch G, Ortega J (1997) Hydrothermal alteration and tourmaline-albite equilibria at the Coxheath porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 79-94 [view file]
Zhang M, Salje E K H, Carpenter M A, Parsons I, Kroll H, Reed S J B, Graeme-Barber A (1997) Exsolution and Al-Si disorder in alkali feldspars: Their analysis by infrared spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 82, 849-857 [view file]
Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]
Boffa Ballaran T, Carpenter M A (2003) Line broadening and enthalpy: Some empirical calibrations of solid solution behaviour from IR spectra, Phase Transitions, 76, 137-154
Benusa M D, Angel R J, Ross N L (2005) Compression of albite NaAlSi₃O₈, American Mineralogist, 90, 1115-1120 [view file]
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]
McKeown D A (2005) Raman spectroscopy and vibrational analyses of albite: From 25 °C through the melting temperature, American Mineralogist, 90, 1506-1517 [view file]
Brown J M, Abramson E H, Angel R J (2006) Triclinic elastic constants for low albite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 256-265
Liu L, El Gorsey A (2007) High-pressure phase transitions of the feldspars, and further characterization of lingunite, International Geology Review, 49, 854-860
Bendel V, Schmidt B C (2008) Raman spectroscopic characterization of disordered alkali feldspars along the join KAlSi₃O₈ - NaAlSi₃O₈: application to natural sanidine and anorthoclase, European Journal of Mineralogy, 20, 1055-1065
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]
Papike J J, Karner J M, Shearer C K, Burger P V (2009) Silicate mineralogy of martian meteorites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 7443-7485
Gunter M E (2010) Defining asbestos: differences between the built and natural environments, Chimia, 64, 747-752
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]
Németh P, Lehner S W, Petaev M I, Buseck P R (2013) Kumdykolite, a high-temperature feldspar from an enstatite chondrite, American Mineralogist, 98, 1070-1073 [view file]
Wunder B, Stefanski J, Wirth R, Gottschalk M (2013) Al-B substitution in the system albite (NaAlSi₃O₈)-reedmergnerite (NaBSi₃O₈), European Journal of Mineralogy, 25, 499-508
Kaercher P, Militzer B, Wenk H R (2014) Ab initio calculations of elastic constants of plagioclase feldspars, American Mineralogist, 99, 2344-2352
Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K H, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (II), Mineralien Welt, 25, 82-95
Yang Y, Xia Q, Zhang P (2015) Evolution of OH groups in diopside and feldspars with temperature, European Journal of Mineralogy, 27, 185-192
Brown J M, Angel R J, Ross N L (2016) Elasticity of plagioclase feldspars, Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 1-13
Almeida K M F, Jenkins D M (2017) Stability field of the Cl-rich scapolite marialite, American Mineralogist, 102, 2484-2493
Jin S, Xu H (2017) Solved: The enigma of labradorite feldspar with incommensurately modulated structure, American Mineralogist, 102, 21-32
Nespolo M, Souvignier B (2017) Structural analysis of twins in feldspars. I. Calsbad twinning, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 939-947
Befus K S, Lin J-F, Cisneros M, Fu S (2018) Feldspar Raman shift and application as a magmatic thermobarometer, American Mineralogist, 103, 600-609
Liu W, Yang Y, Xia Q, Ye Y, Wang Z, Zhang P, Li G (2018) Water decreases displacive phase transition temperature in alkali feldspar, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 1071-1081
Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Prabhu A, Eleish A, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Rampe E B, Hazen R M, Achilles C N, Treiman A H, Yen A S, Morris R V, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Relationships between unit-cell parameters and composition for rock-forming minerals on Earth, Mars, and other extraterrestrial bodies, American Mineralogist, 103, 848-856 [view file]
Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Hazen R M, Treiman A H, Achilles C N, Yen A S, Morris R V, Rampe E B, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Gellert R, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Crystal chemistry of martian minerals from Bradbury Landing through Naukluft Plateau, Gale crater, Mars, American Mineralogist, 103, 857-871 [view file]
Plotinskaya O Y, Abramova V D, Groznova E O, Tessalina S G, Seltmann R, Spratt J (2018) Trace-element geochemistry of molybdenite from porphyry Cu deposits of the Birgilda-Tomino ore cluster (South Urals, Russia), Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S281-S306
Jin S, Xu H, Wang X, Jacobs R, Morgan D (2020) The incommensurately modulated structures of low-temperature labradorite feldspars: a single-crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction study, Acta Crystallographica, B76, 93-107
Kroll H, Bambauer H U, Pentinghaus H (2020) Na-feldspar: temperature, pressure and the state of order, European Journal of Mineralogy, 32, 427-441
Allaz J M, Guillong M, Tavazzani L, Spiekermann G, Zehnder L, Bullock E, DesOrmeau J, Jercinovic M J, Krause J, Marxer F, Nachlas W O, Spratt J (2023) A new albite microanalytical reference material from Piz Beverin for Na, Al and Si determination, and the potential for new K-feldspar reference materials, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 47, 907-929 [view file]
Che S, Zega T J (2023) Hydrothermal fluid activity on asteroid Itokawa, Nature Astronomy, 1-7 [link]

REFERENCES for Albite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Gahn J G, Berzelius J (1815) Underfökning af nagra i grannskapet af Fahlun funna Fossilier, Afhandlingar i Fysik, Kemi och Mineralogi, 4, 148-216 [view file]

Rose G (1823) Ueber den Feldspath, Albit, Labrador und Anorthit, Annalen der Physik und der Physikalischen Chemie, 73, 173-208 [view file]

Rose M G (1824) On felspar, albite, labrador, and anorthite, The Annals of Philosophy, 7, 49-59 [view file]

Barrer R M, White E A D (1952) The hydrothermal chemitry of silicates Part II.* Synthetic crystalline sodium aluminosilicates, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1952, 1561-1571 [view file]

Ferguson R B, Traill R J, Taylor W H (1957) The crystal structure of low-temperature and high-temperature albites, Acta Crystallographica, 10, 759-760

Currie K L (1966) Abstract of paper presented at the eleventh annual meeting: On the solubility of albite in supercritical water, The Canadian Mineralogist, 8, 664-664 [view file]

Bambauer H U, Corlett M, Eberhard E, Viswanathan K (1967) Diagrams for the determination of plagioclases using X-ray powder methods (Part III of laboratory investigations of plagioclases), Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 47, 333-349

Middleton G V (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Albite of secondary origin, after perthite, in sandstones of the charny formation, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 300-300 [view file]

Subbarao K V (1969) An intergrowth between albite and sodalite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 721-723 [view file]

Phillips M W, Colville A A, Ribbe P H (1971) The crystal structures of two oligoclases: a comparison with low and high albite, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 133, 43-65 [view file]

Sturt B A, Ramsay D M (1971) Observation on "An intergrowth between albite and sodalite", The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 904-904 [view file]

Prewitt C T, Sueno S, Papike J J (1976) The crystal structures of high albite and monalbite at high temperatures, American Mineralogist, 61, 1213-1225 [view file]

Piwinskii A J, Duba A, Ho P (1977) The electrical conductivity of low and high albite throughout its melting interval at 100 kPa, The Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 196-197 [view file]

Keefer K D, Brown G E (1978) Crystal structures and compositions of sanidine and high albite in cryptoperthitic intergrowth, American Mineralogist, 63, 1264-1273 [view file]

Winter J K, Okamura F P, Ghose S (1979) A high-temperature structural study of high albite, monalbite, and the analbite - monalbite phase transition, American Mineralogist, 64, 409-423 [view file]

Harlow G E, Brown G E (1980) Low albite: an X-ray and neutron diffraction study, American Mineralogist, 65, 986-995

Kline S W (1984) Iron-rich hornblende plus albite in low-pressure metabasites, Chibougamau, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 391-399 [view file]

Pouliot G, Trudel P, Valiquette G, Samson P (1984) Armenite - thulite - albite veins at Rémigny, Quebec: the second occurrence of armenite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 22, 453-464 [view file]

Wenk H R, Kroll H (1984) Analysis of P1, I1, and C1 plagioclase structures, Bulletin de Minéralogie, 107, 467-487

Carpenter M A, McConnell J D C, Navrotsky A (1985) Enthalpies of ordering in the plagioclase feldspar solid-solution, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 49, 947-966

FitzGerald J D, Parise J B, Mackinnon I D R (1986) Average structure of an An48 plagioclase from the Hogarth Ranges, American Mineralogist, 71, 1399-1408 [view file]

Su S C, Ribbe P H, Bloss F D (1986) Alkali feldspars: Structural state determined from composition and optic axial angle 2V, American Mineralogist, 71, 1285-1296 [view file]

Ferguson R B, Ball N A (1987) Quantitative phase-analysis of Rb-enriched maximum microcline and low albite by X-ray powder diffractometry, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 337-345 [view file]

Brown W L, Parsons I (1989) Alkali feldspars: ordering rates, phase transformations and behaviour diagrams for igneous rocks, Mineralogical Magazine, 53, 25-42 [view file]

Armbuster T, Bürgi H B, Kunz M, Gnos E, Brönnimann S, Lienert C (1990) Variation of displacement parameters in structure refinements of low albite, American Mineralogist, 75, 135-140 [view file]

Dickinson J E, Scarfe C M (1990) Raman spectroscopic study of glasses on the join diopside-albite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54, 1037-1043 [link]

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

Fleet M E (1992) Tetrahedral-site occupancies in reedmergnerite and synthetic boron albite (NaBSi₃O₈), American Mineralogist, 77, 76-84 [view file]

Richards R P, Ercit T S (1992) Baveno-twinned albite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 207-214 [view file]

Swanson S E, Fenn P M (1992) THe effect of F and Cl on the kinetics of albite crystallization: a model for granitic pegmatites?, The Canadian Mineralogist, 30, 549-559 [view file]

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

Downs R T, Hazen R M, Finger L W (1994) The high-pressure crystal chemistry of low albite and the origin of the pressure dependency of Al/Si order-disorder, American Mineralogist, 79, 1042-1052 [view file]

Pinckston R D, Smith D G W (1994) Mineralogy of the Lake zone, Thor Lake rare-metals deposit, N.W.T., Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 32, 516-532

Lynch G, Ortega J (1997) Hydrothermal alteration and tourmaline-albite equilibria at the Coxheath porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit, Nova Scotia, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 79-94 [view file]

Zhang M, Salje E K H, Carpenter M A, Parsons I, Kroll H, Reed S J B, Graeme-Barber A (1997) Exsolution and Al-Si disorder in alkali feldspars: Their analysis by infrared spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 82, 849-857 [view file]

Shannon R D, Shannon R C, Medenbach O, Fischer R X (2002) Refractive index and dispersion of fluorides and oxides, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 31, 931-970 [view file]

Boffa Ballaran T, Carpenter M A (2003) Line broadening and enthalpy: Some empirical calibrations of solid solution behaviour from IR spectra, Phase Transitions, 76, 137-154

Benusa M D, Angel R J, Ross N L (2005) Compression of albite NaAlSi₃O₈, American Mineralogist, 90, 1115-1120 [view file]

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]

McKeown D A (2005) Raman spectroscopy and vibrational analyses of albite: From 25 °C through the melting temperature, American Mineralogist, 90, 1506-1517 [view file]

Brown J M, Abramson E H, Angel R J (2006) Triclinic elastic constants for low albite, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 33, 256-265

Liu L, El Gorsey A (2007) High-pressure phase transitions of the feldspars, and further characterization of lingunite, International Geology Review, 49, 854-860

Bendel V, Schmidt B C (2008) Raman spectroscopic characterization of disordered alkali feldspars along the join KAlSi₃O₈ - NaAlSi₃O₈: application to natural sanidine and anorthoclase, European Journal of Mineralogy, 20, 1055-1065

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]

Papike J J, Karner J M, Shearer C K, Burger P V (2009) Silicate mineralogy of martian meteorites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 7443-7485

Gunter M E (2010) Defining asbestos: differences between the built and natural environments, Chimia, 64, 747-752

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]

Németh P, Lehner S W, Petaev M I, Buseck P R (2013) Kumdykolite, a high-temperature feldspar from an enstatite chondrite, American Mineralogist, 98, 1070-1073 [view file]

Wunder B, Stefanski J, Wirth R, Gottschalk M (2013) Al-B substitution in the system albite (NaAlSi₃O₈)-reedmergnerite (NaBSi₃O₈), European Journal of Mineralogy, 25, 499-508

Kaercher P, Militzer B, Wenk H R (2014) Ab initio calculations of elastic constants of plagioclase feldspars, American Mineralogist, 99, 2344-2352

Kolitsch U, Rieck B, Brandstätter F, Schreiber F, Fabritz K H, Blaß G, Gröbner J (2014) Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (II), Mineralien Welt, 25, 82-95

Yang Y, Xia Q, Zhang P (2015) Evolution of OH groups in diopside and feldspars with temperature, European Journal of Mineralogy, 27, 185-192

Brown J M, Angel R J, Ross N L (2016) Elasticity of plagioclase feldspars, Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 1-13

Almeida K M F, Jenkins D M (2017) Stability field of the Cl-rich scapolite marialite, American Mineralogist, 102, 2484-2493

Jin S, Xu H (2017) Solved: The enigma of labradorite feldspar with incommensurately modulated structure, American Mineralogist, 102, 21-32

Nespolo M, Souvignier B (2017) Structural analysis of twins in feldspars. I. Calsbad twinning, European Journal of Mineralogy, 29, 939-947

Befus K S, Lin J-F, Cisneros M, Fu S (2018) Feldspar Raman shift and application as a magmatic thermobarometer, American Mineralogist, 103, 600-609

Liu W, Yang Y, Xia Q, Ye Y, Wang Z, Zhang P, Li G (2018) Water decreases displacive phase transition temperature in alkali feldspar, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 1071-1081

Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Prabhu A, Eleish A, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Rampe E B, Hazen R M, Achilles C N, Treiman A H, Yen A S, Morris R V, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Relationships between unit-cell parameters and composition for rock-forming minerals on Earth, Mars, and other extraterrestrial bodies, American Mineralogist, 103, 848-856 [view file]

Morrison S M, Downs R T, Blake D F, Vaniman D T, Ming D W, Hazen R M, Treiman A H, Achilles C N, Yen A S, Morris R V, Rampe E B, Bristow T F, Chipera S J, Sarrazin P C, Gellert R, Fendrich K V, Morookian J M, Farmer J D, Des Marais D J, Craig P I (2018) Crystal chemistry of martian minerals from Bradbury Landing through Naukluft Plateau, Gale crater, Mars, American Mineralogist, 103, 857-871 [view file]

Plotinskaya O Y, Abramova V D, Groznova E O, Tessalina S G, Seltmann R, Spratt J (2018) Trace-element geochemistry of molybdenite from porphyry Cu deposits of the Birgilda-Tomino ore cluster (South Urals, Russia), Mineralogical Magazine, 82, S281-S306

Jin S, Xu H, Wang X, Jacobs R, Morgan D (2020) The incommensurately modulated structures of low-temperature labradorite feldspars: a single-crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction study, Acta Crystallographica, B76, 93-107

Kroll H, Bambauer H U, Pentinghaus H (2020) Na-feldspar: temperature, pressure and the state of order, European Journal of Mineralogy, 32, 427-441

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