By use of a high-temperature camera designed for in situ synchrotron-radiation X-ray topography the ~-fl transition was investigated in a Z-cut synthetic-quartz sample. Preliminary dynamical observations on movement of the boundaries between ~ and fl phases and ~t 1 and ~2 domains are reported.Quartz undergoes a phase transition at about 846 K. The low-temperature phase has symmetry 32 and the hightemperature fl phase presents symmetry 622 (Frondel, 1945). In the Dauphin6 twin the part ~ is rotated by 180 ° about the c axis with respect to 0~ 2. Different phases (~t-fl)and twinned regions (~1-~2) satisfy simultaneously the Bragg condition for all lattice planes. However, there are differences in atomic positions in the unit cell, so that the respective structure factors differ for some reflections (Young, 1962). For example, the structure factors F30:~ 1 = 25