Right! Whoever came up with this ternary graph was pretty ingenious.
The most common use in geology is plotting the ionic concentration of
the salts in feldspars. The three corners are potassium, sodium and
calcium. A feldspar can have any combination of these, but they all
add up to 100%
On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:33 AM, Michael Koch-Schulte wrote:
> OK Wait! I get it. The wedge is actually five steps in each colour
> plane.
>
> ~m
>
> Clay wrote:
>
>>> Just to clarify that should read B:1 should it not?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, sorry about the typo.
>>
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