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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1975.040.312.06</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Leucite-Na-feldspar Incompatibility: An Experimental Study</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Gupta</surname>
<given-names>Alok K.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="FN1">1</xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Edgar</surname>
<given-names>Alan D.</given-names>
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<aff>Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada</aff></contrib-group>
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<fn fn-type="present-address" id="FN1"><label>1</label><p>Present address: Institut f&#x00FC;r Mineralogie, Ruhr-Universit&#x00E4;t Bochum, D-463 Bochum, Germany.</p></fn></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1975</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<issue>312</issue>
<fpage>377</fpage>
<lpage>384</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>16</day>
<month>9</month>
<year>1974</year>
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<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>2</day>
<month>1</month>
<year>1975</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1975, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1975</copyright-year>
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<title>Summary</title>
<p>Phase relations at atmospheric pressure in the pseudobinary join KAlSi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub> (Lc)-NaAlSi<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub>(Ab) and in the pseudoternary join Lc-Ab-CaAl<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>O<sub>8</sub>(An) indicate that leucite is in-compatible with Na-feldspar. In the former join leucite can exist with an alkali feldspar of maximum albite content Ab<sub>54</sub>. In the Lc-Ab-An join, leucite only coexists with ternary feldspars with high An contents (approximately An<sub>50</sub>). Under <italic>P</italic>H<sub>2</sub>O conditions leucites may only coexist with alkali feldspars even poorer in Ab than those found at atmospheric pressure. Rare occurrences of coexisting leucite and Na-feldspar in nature have probably not crystallized directly from a melt but may have formed by a process of alkali ion exchange; or they may be unstable assemblages. No support can be found for the suggestions based on thermochemical calculations that albite and leucite are compatible at high temperatures.</p></abstract>
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