Deskripsi Mineral Dalam Deret Bowen

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Nama : Adelia Irna Santika

NIM

: 115.150.048

PLUG : 9

THE DESCRIPTION of THE MINERALS in the BOWEN REACTION SERIES


1. Name
: Olivine
Composition : (Mg,Fe)2SiO4
Hardness
: 6,5
Description : Green, Streak white, Translucent, Vitreous, plate 13.
Orthorhombic, tabular, poor, Occurs in igneous rocks rich in Mg or Fe.
2. Name
: Hornblende
Composition : NaCa2(Mg,Fe.Al)5(Si8O22)(OH,F)2
Hardness
: 5-6
Description : Dark grren to black, sometimes brownish, streak white to grey,
vitreous, monoclinic amphibole, prismatic, bladed, good intersecting,
common in igneous and methamophic rocks.
3. Name
: Biotite
Composition : K(Mg,Fe)3(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Hardness
: 2,5-3
Description : Brown to black, atreak white to grey, Vitreous, pearly,
monoclinic silicate sheet structure, perfect, common mica, a paler coloured
Mg mica is called phlogopite.
4. Name
: Muscovite
Composition : KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Hardness
: 2,5
Description : Colourless, streak white, vitreous, pearly, monoclinic, silicate
sheet structure, perfect, flexible elastic sheets, common rock forming
mineral, used fpr electrical insulation.
5. Name
: Quatrz
Composition : SiO2
Hardness
:7
Description : Colourless, white, coloured by impurities, plate 4, streak white,
vitreous, trigonal, hexagonal columnar habit, massive, conchoidal fracture,
common rock and vein forming mineral.
6. Name
: Anortite
Composition : CaAl2SiO8
Hardness
: 6-6,5
Description : White, grayish, Redness, Transparent, Translusan, Opaq,
Vitreous Bias Index: 1573 -1590, triclinic Pinacoida.
7. Name
: Labradorite
Composition : Na (AlSi3O8) Ca (Al2Si2O8)
Hardness
: 6-6,5
Description : Grey, Black, Translucent, Opaque, luster glass, triclinic.
8. Name
: Andesine
Composition : (Na, Ca) [Al (Si, Al) Si2O8]
Hardness
: 6-6,5
Description : Red, White, Green, Transparent to Translucent, Subitreous to
pearly Index Bias: 1543 -1562, triclinic Pinacoidal.
9. Name
: Albite
Composition : Na (AlSi3O8)
Hardness
: 6-6,5

Description : White to Gray, Bluish, greenery, redness, Colorless, transparent


to translusant, Viterious, Pearly, triclinic Pinakonidal.
10.Name
: Oligoclase
Composition : (Na,Ca) AlSi3O8
Hardness
: 6-6,5
Description : opaque white or grayish-white, green, yellow or brown, flash
glass, Transclucent-transparent, has a first direction and fractional parts
konkoidal.
11.Name
: Bitownite
Composition : (Al,Si) AlSi2O8
Hardness
: 6-6,5
Description : white, gray and even colorless (colorless), luster glass, white
drain, transparent-opaque, have different parts of the first direction, and
fractional konkoidal
12.Name
: Pyroxene
Composition : (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al)(Si,Al)2O6
Hardness
: 5 - 6,5
Description : white, shiny glass, drain the white, short prismatic, translucentopaque.

Reference

http://pusakadunia.com/blog/6087/
http://younggeolog.blogspot.co.id/2012/12/plagioklas.html
http://franzbonbon.blogspot.co.id/2011/04/mineral-piroksen.html
J,W, Philips, N. 1980. An Introduction to Mineralogy for Geologist. New York :
John Wiley & Sons.

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