Abstract
The structures of Brazil twin boundaries, the micro-textures due to Brazil twinning, and the sites and the conditions for the generation of Brazil twins have been investigated on natural amethyst crystals with and without Brewster fringes, synthetic amethyst crystals hydrothermally grown under various conditions, and natural milky quartz crystals of epithermal origin. Their generation is triggered by the precipitation of solid inclusions on the growing smooth surfaces due to a perturbation of growth parameters. Brewster fringes appear through a process of incorporation of a large number of Brazil twin lamellae, whereas fibrous or other micro-textures appear when there is no such process. The former is assumed to have been formed under more stable conditions than the latter.
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