Silicate mineral
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- Note
- Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups. They are the largest and most important class of minerals and make up approximately 90 percent of Earth´s crust.
In mineralogy, silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) is usually considered a silicate mineral. Silica is found in nature as the mineral quartz, and its polymorphs.
On Earth, a wide variety of silicate minerals occur in an even wider range of combinations as a result of the processes that have been forming and re-working the crust for billions of years. These processes include partial melting, crystallization, fractionation, metamorphism, weathering, and diagenesis.
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Jadeit
Angeschliffene und polierte...
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Image: Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld (namu) - CC BY-NC-SA -
Turmalin
Schwarzer Turmalin...
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Rhodonit
Angeschliffene und polierte...
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Image: Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld (namu) - CC BY-NC-SA -
Aktinolith in Schiefer
Aktinolith...
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Image: Geomuseum der WWU Münster - CC BY-NC-SA -
Almandin in Glimmerschiefer
Almandin (Fe3Al2[SiO4]3) ist...
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Image: Geomuseum der WWU Münster - CC BY-NC-SA
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