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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">10.1180/002646199548538</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Subsolidus Rubidium-Dominant Feldspar from the Morrua Pegmatite, Mozambique: Paragenesis and Composition</article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Teertstra</surname>
<given-names>D. K.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>&#x010C;ern&#x00FD;</surname>
<given-names>P.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Hawthorne</surname>
<given-names>F. C.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2</aff></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>6</month>
<year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>63</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<fpage>313</fpage>
<lpage>320</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>18</day>
<month>6</month>
<year>1998</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>3</day>
<month>8</month>
<year>1998</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
<abstract>
<title>Abstract</title>
<p>At the Morrua pegmatite, Mozambique, alkali feldspar has replaced pollucite under low-temperature (250&#x2013;150&#x00B0;C) hydrothermal conditions. Fluids invading a fracture system in pollucite formed round granular aggregates of (K-Rb)-feldspar in three stages: (1) a compositionally heterogeneous core of the feldspar cluster (+cookeite &#x00B1; apatite) with 7&#x2013;20 mol.% RbAlSi<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub>, grading outward into a Rb-dominant feldspar with 66 mol.% RbAlSi<sub>3</sub>O<sub>8</sub> (20 wt.% Rb<sub>2</sub>O); (2) an intermediate layer of non-porous, inclusion-free, end-member K-feldspar; (3) an outer layer of porous end-member K-feldspar. Feldspars of all three stages seem to be monoclinic and disordered, with metastable sanidine structure. Zoning in K/Rb, preserved on a fine scale, was formed during growth at a temperature too low for subsequent alkali-cation diffusion or (Al,Si)-ordering.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>K-feldspar</kwd>
<kwd>Rb-feldspar</kwd>
<kwd>rubidium</kwd>
<kwd>sanidine</kwd>
<kwd>granitic pegmatite</kwd>
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