The Raman spectra of a large number of natural feldspar-group minerals were obtained to
determine what compositional and structural information can be inferred solely from their …

Recently, a large spodumene pegmatite deposit was discovered in the Higher Himalayan
orogenic zone near Qongjiagang. The granites exposed on about 1500 vertical meters of …

Fragments of land snail (Achatinidae) shell were found at Border Cave in varying
proportions in all archaeological members, with the exception of the oldest members 5 WA …

It is said that during a voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921, the Indian physicist
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970) looked at the wonderful blue opalescence of …

Recurring subsolidus re-equilibration of granitic feldspars induced by fluid infiltration events
provides a record of fluid–rock interactions that affect large volumes of the Earth's …

In the present study, a geopolymer from dolochar ash was synthesized and used for the
removal of heavy metal ions such as Co (II), Ni (II), Cd (II), and Pb (II) from the aqueous …

Northwest Africa (NWA) 8159 is an augite-rich shergottite, with a mineralogy dominated by
Ca-, Fe-rich pyroxene, plagioclase, olivine, and magnetite. NWA 8159 crystallized from an …

The authors have developed an integrated remote Raman and laser-induced breakdown
spectroscopy (LIBS) system for measuring both the Raman and LIBS spectra of minerals …

A detailed Raman spectroscopic, electron microprobe, and laser ablation-induced coupled
plasma-mass spectrometric study of 46 natural tourmalines [XY3Z6 (T6O18)(BO3) 3V3W] …

Plagioclase undergoes complex exsolution and ordering and phase transition processes
during their evolution in nature, and this has hindered attempts to define simple trends …