Diopside-Albite: A Complex System
摘要
It would be folly to suppose that diopside-albite is a binary system. We have already found, in Di-An, that diopside shows incorporation of Al when that element is present. In this case, it is to be expected that diopside will steal Al from albite. The bad news does not end with this, for the albite will also steal Ca from diopside to make plagioclase, and the resulting effects on residual liquids are both important and difficult to analyse.