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Branching and Oscillatory Patterns in Plagioclase and Mississippi-Valley Type Sphalerite Deposits

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It has been observed for a long time that not all individual minerals have a uniform chemical composition. Many of them exhibit complex growth patterns, such as oscillatory zoning (in which the chemical composition fluctuates along a traverse within the crystal) or branching patterns (characterized by a tree-like crystal form) that arise spontaneously as a result of growth kinetics. Liesegang was among the first to investigate the kinetics of a class of growth patterns: periodic precipitation. Until fairly recently (Lasaga and Kirkpatrick, 1981), the importance of kinetics in geochemistry was largely overlooked.

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L’heureux, I., Fowler, A.D. (1999). Branching and Oscillatory Patterns in Plagioclase and Mississippi-Valley Type Sphalerite Deposits. In: Jamtveit, B., Meakin, P. (eds) Growth, Dissolution and Pattern Formation in Geosystems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9179-9_4

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