This exercise is due on Oct 8, 2014.
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Explore aspects of solid solution. The carbonate minerals are our example minerals. You will use the limits of solid solution to determine the temperature of formation of a metamorphic rock.
Dolomite with tourmaline from Brumado, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Many minerals are solid solutions of two or more end members. The compositions of minerals are potent petrogenetic indicators of source and conditions of formation of rocks.