Leonard James Spencer

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Leonard James Spencer 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8… (1911)

The most pronounced lamination is that parallel to the orthopinacoid; another, less distinct, is parallel to the basal plane, and a third parallel to the plane of symmetry; these planes of secondary parting are in addition to the ordinary prismatic cleavage of all pyroxenes. Frequently the material is interlaminated with a rhombic pyroxene (bronzite) or with an amphibole (smaragdite or uralite) , the latter being an alteration product of the diallage.
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