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The biological and geographical website EurekaMag.com publishes reviews of specific subjects of all areas of biological and geographical science. The latest insights cover Homo sapiens which are the only living species in the Homo genus, originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and reaching full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago. The latest review is about the three main rock types Igneous Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks and Sedimentary Rocks. Mannheim, Germany (PRWEB) January 13,...
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Sillimanite is an alumino-sillicate mineral with the chemical formula Al2SiO5. Sillimanite is named after the American chemist B. Silliman (1779-1824). Occurrence Sillimanite is one of three alumino-sillicate polymorphs, the other two being andalusite and kyanite. A common variety of sillimanite is known as fibrolite, so named because the mineral appears like a bunch of fibres twisted together when viewed under thin section or even by the naked eye. Both the fibrous and traditional...
Wollastonite is a calcium inosilicate mineral (CaSiO3) that may contain small amounts of iron, magnesium, and manganese substituting for calcium. It is usually white. It forms when impure limestone or dolostone is subjected to high temperature and pressure sometimes in the presence of silica-bearing fluids as in skarns or contact metamorphic rocks. Associated minerals include garnets, vesuvianite, diopside, tremolite, epidote, plagioclase feldspar, and calcite. It is named after the English...
