Staurolite is a reddish brown to black, mostly opaque, nesosilicate mineral with a white streak. It crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, has...

minerals are known as index minerals. Examples include sillimanite, kyanite, staurolite, andalusite, and some garnet. Other minerals, such as olivines, pyroxenes...

minerals are useful as well, especially the presence of the polymorphs of staurolite, which occurs frequently with kyanite. However, the most useful characteristic...

the mineral as are its crystal face angles. For example, crystals of staurolite show twinning at angles of almost precisely 90 degrees or 30 degrees....

honey bee Mammal: white-tailed deer Marine mammal: right whale Mineral: staurolite Nicknames: "Peach State" "Empire State of the South" Reptile: gopher tortoise...

muscovite, biotite, garnet, sodic plagioclase Staurolite zone: quartz, muscovite, biotite, garnet, staurolite, plagioclase Kyanite zone: quartz, muscovite...

) Spodumene Hiddenite (var.) Kunzite (var.) Triphane (var.) Spurrite Staurolite Stibiotantalite Stichtite Stolzite Strontianite Strontium titanate Sulfur...

also one of very few known places on earth where Staurolite is found. Here, the mineral Staurolite sometimes forms cross rocks or “fairy stones”. Blanchard...

metamorphic rocks like mica schists, associated with minerals such as staurolite, kyanite, andalusite, and others. Almandine has nicknames of Oriental...

opened on June 15, 1936, and is home to the mysterious "fairy stones", or staurolite. The stone, prevalent in the region, may have the St. Andrew's or Roman...

cross-polarized light in which feldspar crystals exhibit sericite alteration Staurolite-garnet schist in thin section under cross-polarized light with sericite...

and up to 1 km wide. At both banded iron formations (metamorphosed to staurolite-grade itabirites) have been enriched to form haematite and haematite-goethite...

grown into each other; examples of this twinning include cross-shaped staurolite twins and Carlsbad twinning in orthoclase. Cyclic twins are caused by...

(individual crystals of unusual size) of distinctive minerals, such as garnet, staurolite, kyanite, sillimanite, or cordierite. Because schists are a very large...

of staurolite gneiss and schist, from 60 meters (200 feet) to 150 meters (490 feet) thick, which contains porphyroblasts of garnet and staurolite up to...

staurolite trilogy: 1. Lithium in staurolite and its petrologic significance. 2. An experimental determination of the upper stability of staurolite plus...

Sphalerite Spherocobaltite Spinel Spodumene Spurrite Stannite Stannoidite Staurolite Steacyite Stellerite Stephanite Stercorite Stibarsen Stibiconite Stibiopalladinite...

Fairy stone may refer to: The mineral staurolite Certain calcium carbonate concretions in clay Fairy Stone State Park in Patrick County, Virginia This...

and is subject to frequent landslides. It is famous for its disten and staurolite crystals and for having given the surname Forni which is now common throughout...

right- and left-handed crystals aragonite, gypsum, quartz, plagioclase, staurolite Hexagonal Hexagonal prism (six-sided) beryl, galena, quartz, hanksite...

Staurolite cross found nearby...

Pleonaste 0.026 — Rhodolite 0.026 — Boracite 0.024 0.012 Cryolite 0.024 — Staurolite 0.023 0.012–0.013 Pyrope 0.022 0.013–0.016 Diaspore 0.02 — Grossular 0...

---------------------- Gneiss --- Migmatite Chlorite zone Biotite zone Garnet zone Staurolite zone Kyanite zone Sillimanite zone A more complete indication of this...

In metapelites: muscovite + biotite + quartz + plagioclase ± garnet, staurolite, kyanite/sillimanite In Si-dolostones: dolomite + calcite + tremolite...

quartz, orthoclase +/- albite, +/- biotite +/- actinolite +/- garnet +/- staurolite +/- sillimanite Amphibolite facies is usually a product of Barrovian Facies...

Staurolite (1976)...

anthophyllite, cummingtonite, sapphirine, sillimanite, kyanite, quartz, staurolite and biotite. Gedrite was first described for an occurrence in Gèdre, Hautes-Pyrénées...

Al2SiO5 Dumortierite – Al 6.5–7BO 3(SiO 4) 3(O,OH) 3 Topaz – Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 Staurolite – Fe2Al9(SiO4)4(O,OH)2 Humite group – (Mg,Fe)7(SiO4)3(F,OH)2 Norbergite...

Marine mammal North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis 1985 Mineral Staurolite 1976 Motto "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation" 1799 Musical theater Jekyll Island...

usually included in the name, as, for example, garnet schist, or garnet-staurolite schist, and so forth. Metamorphism Metamorphic facies Best (2003), p 435...