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The presence of a solvus in the ternary feldspar system indicates that there is limited solubility of the three components at magmatically reasonable temperatures and pressures.

The compositions of ternary feldspars coexisting in equilibrium with melts are constrained by the subsolidus characteristics in the system Ab-An-Or.

Ternary diagram feldspar