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Analyzing the Growth of Magmatic Crystals — An Electron Microprobe Analysis Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Robert Sturm
Robert Sturm*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Engineering and Physics, University of Salzburg, Austria
*
Robert.Sturm@sbg.ac.at

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Since the pioneering mineralogical and crystallographic studies of the 1960s and 1970s it has been regarded as a fundamental tenant of earth sciences that the growth of minerals, and especially of magmatic mineral phases, depends upon the physico-chemical state of the growth environment. Meanwhile, based on extensive empirical and experimental approaches, some factors controlling crystal growth and, as a consequence of that, crystal shape or morphology can be detected and documented. Therefore, the chemistry and temperature of the growth environment, as well as its content of volatile phases, have been found to be key to understanding the crystallization processes.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , May 2007 , pp. 36 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2007

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