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nurbo
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 01:13 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Thanks Ru,
I had pondered that but I couldnt think of a reason why the purple cube would stop forming when it reached the extent of the first crystals boundaries. Unless theres some kind of almost epitactic relationship or a very unlikely coincidence.
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Jesse Fisher
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 04:42 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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They certainly look like classic penetration twins [111} to me.
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 06:16 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Yes, they look like so. But do notice that {111} axis doesn't fit the rotation axis. There is a translation beyond the {111}-rotation, and this leads to a lack of symmetry!
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 10:36 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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The nice thing about your crystal, nurbo, is that the growth banding clearly shows that the purple corner is a late fill of an earlier step. The next increment of growth would wrap around the whole "healed" crystal. Jesse describes ( if I remember right) just such a late "wrap" around his yellow-cornered green crystals from Rogerley.
Thanks Pablo. The angular relations look good on that penetration twin for a 60 degree rotation around [111]. As usual, different faces grow at different rates and we end up with something less ideal than Josele's wooden model, but the angles are good. The closest natural examples to the ideal I have seen have been in a diamond and a loparite.
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James Catmur
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 11:43 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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I have always been fascinated by this specimen. Not only do the fluorite crystals have a complex form, but also the phantom forms a cross within each crystal, which goes through the center of the edge of each crystal.
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Fluorite Jaimina mine, Carrales, Caravia District, Asturias, Spain The crystal is 4cm across The whole specimen measure 28cm x 14cm and every crystal has this phantom and form |
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 12:10 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Looks like a nice hexoctahedron showing on the edges, James. Do you have some more photos to show the shape of the phantom?
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 15:16 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Ru
Not at the moment, but let me see what I can do
James
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Posted: Jul 28, 2013 15:51 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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I had a go with some image correction to enhance a new photo - the color is not right but you can now see that color band / zoning in both crystals. In person it forms a 100, 010, 001 cross with a band perpendicular to each face, in the center of the face.
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Fluorite Jaimina mine, Carrales, Caravia District, Asturias, Spain Crystal of 4cm |
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Jul 29, 2013 21:12 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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I just saw an article on Sectoral Zoning by John Rakovan that looks very relevant for your specimen, James.
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Jul 29, 2013 21:40 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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And that had me looking again at the West Pasture crystal shown above. In that case the vivid green zone seems to be at a growth sector boundary.
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Posted: Jul 30, 2013 08:54 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Ru Smith wrote: | Thanks Pablo. The angular relations look good on that penetration twin for a 60 degree rotation around [111]. As usual, different faces grow at different rates and we end up with something less ideal than Josele's wooden model, but the angles are good. The closest natural examples to the ideal I have seen have been in a diamond and a loparite. |
Thanks, Ru. Good and useful explanation.
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Jul 30, 2013 18:03 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Hi Pablo.
Attached is a small digression from fluorite - a Russian loparite penetration twin, viewed straight down the twin axis, still not ideal, but getting there.
But now we should probably get back to growth (concentric) and sectoral zoning in fluorites!
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Loparite penetration twin, viewed down twin axis. Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia. 7 mm. |
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Aug 02, 2013 16:29 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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I suppose another way to make a cruciform phantom, James, would be for an early cruciform group of parallel growth cubes (like the one shown in Fig 13 of Peter Megaw's article in Rocks & Minerals, 88, March/April 2013) to be engulfed by continued crystal growth.
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Aug 06, 2013 19:08 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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I tried photographing this one under water (Thanks Phil).
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Fluorite. Heights Quarry, Westgate, weardale, Co Durham, England, UK. 3 cm crystal. |
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Aug 07, 2013 21:02 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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This is a beautiful, luminous thing, but I'm going to have to try again to capture the colour zoning, from blue-green to dark blue to violet to green to white. It reminds me a bit of the sea off the Cape of Good Hope.
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Fluorite. "Summit Cleft", Weisseck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria. 75 mm. |
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Fluorite. "Summit Cleft", Weisseck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria. 75 mm. |
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Fluorite. "Summit Cleft", Weisseck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria. 75 mm. |
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Don Lum
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Posted: Aug 07, 2013 22:00 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Ru,
There is a clear similarity.
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Posted: Aug 08, 2013 00:36 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Ru
Looking carefully (the bottom left smaller crystal shows this well on the last photo) there is clearly some form of discontinuity/zone boundary running down the centre of each side of the crystal. So maybe if grew with that discontinuity between zones and that is where the colour is more intense?
James
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Ru Smith
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Posted: Aug 08, 2013 17:19 Post subject: Re: Growth zoning in fluorite |
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Hi Don,
Putting up the photos though I see that the fluorite has more green than that sea. I should have thought of something more tropical.
Here's a view of the reverse of the crystal, whch seems to be a complex contact. It gives an impression of the colour zoning - with plenty of backlighting.
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Fluorite. "Summit Cleft", Weisseck, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria. 75 mm. |
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