It must be remembered, however, that it is only the orthoclase or potash felspars which contain large quantities of potash -- other felspathic rocks, such as oligoclase and labradorite, being comparatively poor in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

There are, for instance, several different minerals commonly classified under the name of felspar, which have been distinguished by mineralogists by the names of orthoclase, albite, oligoclase, and labradorite; and there are at least two sorts of mica, two of hornblende, and many varieties of zeolites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

They are divisible into two great classes, which have received the names of diorite and dolerite, the former a mixture of albite and hornblende, the latter of augite and labradorite, sometimes with considerable quantities of a sort of oligoclase containing both soda and lime, and of different kinds of zeolitic minerals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

Dolerite, when composed entirely of augite and labradorite, produces rather inferior soils; but when it contains oligoclase and zeolites, and comes under the head of basalt, its disintegration is the source of soils remarkable for their fertility; for these latter substances undergoing rapid decomposition furnish the plants with abundant supplies of alkalies and lime, while the more slowly decomposing hornblende affords the necessary quantity of magnesia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

Day and his colleagues immediately recognized that these meteorites were unusual because of elevated contents of a light-colored feldspar mineral called oligoclase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

Perhaps 75\% of this is the plagioclase feldspars (mostly albite, oligoclase and labradorite) with the remainder as potassium feldspars (mostly microcline and orthoclase).    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference