10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALABASTRINE»
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THE ALABASTRINE SOLUTION. To the Editor of Photographic Notes. Deab Sib,
— Your issue of the 1st instant ;ontaius a letter from "John Uorsley, F.C.S."
notifying your readers of a fact, to photographers generally very well known : that
tho ...
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Sedimentary Deposition in Rift and Foreland Basins in France ...
In general, these nodules are composed of fine-grained (alabastrine) gypsum (
possibly arid climate soil profiles). (B) lenticular gypsum rosettes that consist of
individual (or aggregates of) lenticular-shaped crystals (now as secondary
gypsum ...
Georges Busson, B. Charlotte Schreiber, 1997
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Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700
To find these, it will be necessary to look elsewhere, first to the village of
Alabastrine of the Antinoite nome. A rare glimpse at this true Byzantine Egyptian
village was presented in the 1992 publication by Traianos Gagos and Peter van
Minnen ...
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Geomorphology of Desert Environments
The first group (Type 1) are gypsum-cemented sandstones that comprise 'v-
shaped' cracks infilled by clastic material, veins of fibrous gypsum, as wellas
alabastrine columns and nodules, which Hartley and May (1998) have ar- gued
represent ...
Anthony J. Parsons, Athol D. Abrahams, 2009
Alabastrine gypsum is the most common variety and consists of small crystals
less than 0.002 inch in diameter. Alabastrine gypsum occurs in nodules and in
irregular bands of coalescing nodules. Relict crystal textures are common in the ...
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Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands
Within individual beds there is a gradation from lenticular crystals (0.50 mm in
diameter) at the base to alabastrine crystallites (less than 50 μm in diameter) at
the top. Subsurface desert rose crusts are distinct not only because of the large, ...
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Sedimentary Petrology: An Introduction to the Origin of ...
Alabastrine gypsum consists of small to large, commonly poorly defined
interlocking crystals, many with irregular extinction (Fig. 5.8). In spite of gypsifiFig.
5.8 Alabastrine gypsum, formed by replacement of anhydrite. Crossed polars.
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Evaporites Through Space and Time
(b) Secondary alabastrine gypsum after primary selenite (flattened domes) in
Sicily (late Miocene, Cinciana-Rafffadali road). NB. loss of detail is due to
replacement of primary selenite by massive alabastrine gypsum, but much of the
original ...
B. Charlotte Schreiber, S. Lugli, M. Ba̜bel, 2007
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Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
B. Elongate gypsum nodules with alabastrine cores (e.g., outlined area labelled
A), surrounded by coarse, elongate gypsum crystals (G) that are oriented
perpendicular to adjacent stringers of dolomite (D) and fractures (F). C.
Photomicrograph ...
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Evaporites:Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons: Sediments, ...
porphyroblastic gypsum and fine-grained alabastrine gypsum (Holliday, 1970;
Warren et al., 1990). Porphyroblastic gypsum oftenretains dispersedrelics of the
precursor anhydrite. Crystal forms are coarse, up to two cm across, and can be ...
