Pericline is a form of albite exhibiting elongate prismatic crystals.[1]
Pericline twinning is a type of crystal twinning which show fine parallel twin laminae typically found in the alkali feldspars microcline.[2] The twinning results from a structural transformation between high temperature and low temperature forms.
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