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Host control of recrystallized quartz grains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

D. M. Ransom
D. M. Ransom*
Affiliation:
Central Pacific Minerals N.L., Alice Springs, N.T., Australia
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Summary

The results of a petrofabric study on recrystallization of quartz in nature are presented and compared with recent experimental work. The orientations of newly recrystallized quartz grains are shown to be dependent on the orientation of host grains from or in which they grew. The results are compatible with the experiments of Hobbs (1968). The orientation of new grains appears to be unrelated to stress.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 38 , Issue 293 , March 1971 , pp. 83 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1971

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