Talk:Feldspar

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What does pegmatite dikes mean?

I believe in the context of geology a "dike" is a place where rock type has intruded into another rock type, often as magma seeping into cracks in older rock and hardening. So a pegmatite dike would be an intrusion of pegmatite into some other type of rock. --Delirium 19:41 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I just found the definition on dictionary.com which I hadn't noticed before. dave 17:02 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Can someone help me out with the geological definition of dike at dike? Extend it to a dike (geology) page if you like... Thanks. dave 17:18 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Done - or at least started. Dike (geology) --Vsmith 03:16, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

"feld"

Funnily enough, on the German Wikipedia page for Feldspar the first part of the word Feldspat "feld" is explained to have its origin in the Swedish language with "fjäll" meaning hill, mountain. I'm also not so sure about your explaination for "spat" as well. I think I heard that its origin might be German ("spalten") with the meaning cleavable. Alex, Austria

Images

Please can someone give an idea of size, such as a scale bar. This is very basic stuff. Not including these is bad practice and makes the images of very little value.

Output map

This looks wrong. Each circle is said to represent a % of the top producer. The top producer is given as one country (Italy) but a number of circles of given for single countries (for example 9 in China) Surely the map should be based on countries aolone, or individual companies alone. The present design is a mess.

Images

Please can someone give an idea of size, such as a scale bar. This is very basic stuff. Not including these is bad practice and makes the images of very little value.