antistress mineral
antistress mineral
[¦an·tē¦stres ‚min·ə·rəl] (mineralogy)
Minerals such as leucite, nepheline, alkalic feldspar, andalusite, and cordierite which cannot form or are unstable in an environment of high shearing stress, and hence are not found in highly deformed rocks.
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