#titanite — Public Fediverse posts

Titanite encircling illmenite in an amphibolite-facies metabasalt.

#ThinSectionThursday #Metamorphic #Titanite

Repost from last year: A titanite lozenge imaged both using a cellphone through the microscope ocular, and with a proper imaging system. It's surrounded mostly by quartz (+feldspar).
Likely from the Grenville, but from a teaching collection two generations of retired professors ago.

Titanite can be part of the record of temperature, pressure, and timing of crystallization.

#MinCup25 #Titanite #Grenville #Canada

Lovely sphene, wonderful spheeene! Lovely sphene, wonderful spheeene! Sphene! Sphene! Sphene! Sphene! #MinCup25 #titanite #kosmochlor

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r6drdfmf5fzdtvuacnfmfiga/post/3lzcmyy75bs2u

Reposted from bsky:
A hand-ground section of tephrite from Kaiserstuhl Volcanic Complex showing #Titanite

#MinCup25 #ThinSectionThursday

AlexStrekeisen.it (run by Alessandro Da Mommio) has some beautiful thin section images of titanite:

https://www.alexstrekeisen.it/english/pluto/titanite.php

#MinCup25 #ThinSectionThursday #Titanite #Sphene #Granite #Mineralogy

Repost from last year:
I've seen sphene! (Sounds better than "the rock is tippsy with titanite")

Centimeter-size black sphene (titanite) with apatite (dark brown) and orthoclase feldspar (light brown). Folding pocket knife for scale.

From the Bancroft locality in Ontario, Canada. Grenville-aged (~1.2± billion years)

#MinCup25 #Titanite #Sphene #Bancroft #Ontario #Geology #Grenville

#Titanite
#Pakistan
Photo by Noor Ullah
By #GeologicalWondersToo / Karen Kemp
#GeologyPage #Nature #Minerals #Crystals #Gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer #RockPorn

from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists:
Titanite: the Wedge-shaped Timepiece, by Ronald L. Parker

#Titanite has a distinctive crystal form that it flaunts…

…titanite is among the very few minerals that enjoy a larger color dispersion than that of diamond…

Hayden, Watson & Wark established that the relative concentration of Zr 4+ in titanite is systematically related to pressure and temperature conditions.

https://www.rmag.org/index.php?src=directory&view=articles&srctype=detail&back=articles&refno=8425

#MinCup25 #Geochronology #Geothermobarometry

yeah calcite is cool but have you considered a mineral that is not literally the most common one on earth #titanite #teamTitanite #mincup24

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r6drdfmf5fzdtvuacnfmfiga/post/3l4sde3scbl2e

A titanite lozenge imaged both using a cellphone through the microscope ocular, and with a proper imaging system. It's surrounded mostly by quartz (+feldspar).

Likely from the Grenville, but from a teaching collection two generations of retired professors ago.

#MinCup24 #Titanite #Sphene

Next round in #mincup24 : it's #titanite vs. #Calcite . I voted for titanite because I love the Hauzenberg area where it was first found. And I love the colours.

https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote

I've seen sphene! (Sounds better than "the rock is tight with titanite")

Centimeter-size black sphene (titanite) with apatite (dark brown) and orthoclase feldspar (light brown). Folding pocket knife for scale.

From the Bancroft locality in Ontario, Canada. Grenville-aged (~1.2± billion years)
#MinCup24 #Titanite #Sphene #Bancroft #Ontario #Geology