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MACLES POLYSYNTHETIQUES [1 record]

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Record 1 1998-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
DEF

Successive twinning of three or more individuals according to the same twinning law and with the composition planes parallel. Often revealed by striated surfaces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
CONT

[...] dans le cas des feldspaths plagioclases, où l'on a une série d'individus qui se répètent identiques à eux-mêmes une fois sur deux; dans ce cas plus précis on pourra parler de macles polysynthétiques.

Key term(s)
  • maclage polysynthétique

Spanish

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