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    Cordierite is a common mineral found in pelites like schists and gneisses that forms under low pressure metamorphism. It is typically colorless with low relief, no cleavage, and low order interference colors. Cordierite often shows alteration along fractures or grain edges forming a yellow-brown color and may exhibit simple or multiple twinning. It can be confused with quartz, plagioclase, or K-feldspar but is distinguished by its optical properties and tendency to alter.

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    Cordierite is a common mineral found in pelites like schists and gneisses that forms under low pressure metamorphism. It is typically colorless with low relief, no cleavage, and low order interference colors. Cordierite often shows alteration along fractures or grain edges forming a yellow-brown color and may exhibit simple or multiple twinning. It can be confused with quartz, plagioclase, or K-feldspar but is distinguished by its optical properties and tendency to alter.

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    Cordierite is a common mineral found in pelites like schists and gneisses that forms under low pressure metamorphism. It is typically colorless with low relief, no cleavage, and low order interference colors. Cordierite often shows alteration along fractures or grain edges forming a yellow-brown color and may exhibit simple or multiple twinning. It can be confused with quartz, plagioclase, or K-feldspar but is distinguished by its optical properties and tendency to alter.

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    Cordierite is a common mineral found in pelites like schists and gneisses that forms under low pressure metamorphism. It is typically colorless with low relief, no cleavage, and low order interference colors. Cordierite often shows alteration along fractures or grain edges forming a yellow-brown color and may exhibit simple or multiple twinning. It can be confused with quartz, plagioclase, or K-feldspar but is distinguished by its optical properties and tendency to alter.

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    Cordierite

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    Cordierite
    Mineral structure: Cyclosilicate Common mineral in Pelites (Schists & Gneisses), some Granites Associated with low pressure metamorphism Rock-forming minerals associated with Cordierite: Biotite, Muscovite, Quartz Other index minerals commonly associated with Cordierite: Andalusite, Sillimanite

    Cordierite in Hornfels
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    Key optical features of cordierite in thin section: Colourless Low relief No cleavage Low order interference colours Very readily altered, along fractures or at edges of grains Simple or multiple twinning Yellow pleochroic haloes Common minerals that might be confused with cordierite and occur in similar rocks: Quartz (no twinning, no alteration, few inclusions) Plagioclase (more regular multiple twinning, dusty brown homogeneous alteration) K-feldspar (cross-hatched twinning, exsolution, homogeneous alteration)

    Cordierite pleochroic haloes around radioactive accessory minerals


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    Cordierite twinning
    Cordierite may show a variety of different types of twinning, from sector twinning of cordierite porphyroblasts, simple twinning and multiple twinning of recrystallised matrix porphyroblasts. Twin boundaries often poorly defined. Analyser in Analyser in

    Note: Sector twinned porphyroblast Analyser in

    Note: Simple twinning and marginal alteration Analyser in

    Note: Multiple Twinning

    Note: Inclusion-rich occasionally twinned cordierite with more regular multiple-twinned smaller plagioclase

    Cordierite alteration to pinite (muscovite and chlorite mix)


    Alteration very common, typically yellow-brown, focussed at margins of cordierite or along fractures. Analyser out Analyser in

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    Note: Alteration along fractures and at margins of cordierite Analyser out Analyser in

    Note: Marginal alteration of cordierite porphyroblast Analyser in

    Note: Complete alteration of cordierite porphyroblasts produces fine-grained aggregate of muscovite and chlorite.

    Cordierite shape
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    Note: At high grade cordierite forms a matrix phase in gneisses Analyser out

    Note: At medium grade cordierite porphyroblasts are common and mineral inclusions typically far more abundant than within quartz and feldspar. Return to top Return to index minerals introduction Return to introduction

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