bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Coexisting sodic and calcic amphiboles from high-pressure metamorphic belts and the stability of barroisitic amphibole
Authors: Ernst W. G. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryCompositions of glaucophanes and actinolite-hornblende solid solutions occurring in chemically similar metabasaltic rocks from blueschist terranes in east-central Shikoku, W. California, Valtournanche (W. Alps), and W. Liguria are compared. Chemical contrasts among coexisting Na and Ca amphibole pairs, which reflect disparate P-T histories under the presumed attendance of local equilibrium, include: Na contents are rather high among barroisitic hornblendes from the western and Ligurian Alps, as well as among high-grade tectonic blocks from California; in contrast, actinolitic amphiboles from both lower-grade Franciscan tectonic blocks and in situ schists and the blueschists of Shikoku are impoverished in Na relative to blue-green hornblendes. Sodic amphiboles contain less than 0. 5 Aliv per formula unit, whereas Alvi is very high; a situation reversed among calcic amphiboles. The Na + Ca contents ofglaucophanes are strongly clustered around the sum of 2.0 (i.e. A site vacant) whereas calcic amphiboles have a wider range with the A site variably occupied. No solvus has been detected within either sodic or calcic amphiboles under blueschist facies conditions. For low-grade metabasaltic parageneses, a miscibility gap separates these two amphibole groups; at relatively high grade such compositions have sodic calcic amphiboles of barroisitic type; this may mean that glaucophane + hornblende assemblages are metastable, accounting for textural relations indicating that the sodic amphibole typically did not grow at the same time as the barroisite. Ti, Mn, and K appear to be concentrated in calcic amphibole compared to coexisting glaucophane, probably in the M2, M4, and A sites, respectively.Contrasts in coexisting amphibole tie lines are thought to be a consequence of the fact that the parageneses of Shikoku and California reflect high P and very high P prograde P-T paths respectively, whereas those from Valtournache and W. Liguria show evidence of decompression recrystallization (or back-reaction) of high P (i.e. eclogitic) protoliths. Comparison of the inferred physical conditions operating during the production of these four contrasting paragenetic sequences allows the provisional assignment of a P-T stability region for barroisitic amphibole in metabasaltic rocks as: P 4–5 kb at c. 350°; P 5–7 kb at c. 450 °C.
A Mössbauer spectroscopic study of the cooling history of hypersthene from selected members of the Taupo Pumice formation, New Zealand
Authors: Johnston J. H. , Knedler K. E. 
Published: December 2006

Summary57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy has been used to determine the Mg2+-Fe2+ distribution between the two crystallographically inequivalent cation sites in hypersthenes from a stratigraphic tephra sequence of the Taupo Pumice formation, North Island, New Zealand. From these distributions and X-ray fluorescence analytical data, cooling histories were constructed using previously determined Mg2+-Fe2+ equilibrium isotherms for orthopyroxenes. The results showed that this cooling history geothermometer could be used to enable airfall and airflow tephra to be distinguished. In addition, they showed that the cooling rate of the above deposits correlated better with the deposit thickness, than with the distance of the deposit from the source.
The relationship between euhedral and framboidal pyrite in base-metal sulphide ores
Authors: Ostwald Joseph , England Brian M. 
Published: December 2006

SummarySpecimens of layered baryte containing a range of pyrite forms, including framboids, framboidal aggregates, spherulites, polyhedra, and zoned euhedral crystals from Kempfield, New South Wales, Australia, have been examined by mineragraphy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and electron-probe microanalysis (EPMA). These investigations showed that the pyrite occurred in two forms—an arsenical variety containing approximately 5% arsenic in solid solution within the pyrite and a non-arsenical variety. EPMA studies indicate that the framboids and the cores of the zoned euhedral crystals have similar levels of arsenic and a genetic relationship is deduced to exist between these forms.
Types of distribution of the minerals of the Meldon Aplite, Devonshire
Authors: Chaudhry M. N. , Mahmood A. 
Published: December 2006

SynopsisA statistical study on the modal analysis data of eight minerals of the Meldon aplite is made with a view to determining their distribution patterns in the rock. Various parameters and statistics have been calculated and the results are tabulated.Topaz and elbaite are considered as censored samples; ‘normalization’ in the case of these two minerals is obtained by double probit transforms. Findings of the statistical study are correlated with the modes of formation of the minerals.
Motukoreaite—additional data and comparison with related minerals
Authors: Brindley G. W. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryMotukoreaite resembles hydrotalcite and has positively charged brucite-like layers separated by carbonate and sulphate anions and water molecules. Four phases are recognized. Phase I, the normal mineral with an 11.1 Å basal spacing, readily changes to a mixture of phase I and a partially dehydrated phase II. Phase III with a basal spacing 8.7 Å persists from 50–170°C. Phase II is a pseudo-regular interstratification of phases I and III, with a spacing 11.1 + 8.7 = 19.8 Å; second- and third-order reflections are observed. Phase IV with a 7.5 Å spacing is obtained by treating motukoreaite with sodium carbonate solution to replace SO4 by CO3 anions. Motukoreaite itself shows only slight tendency to transform to a 7.5 Å phase by heat-treatment alone. Comparison is made with the mineral carrboydite, a NiAl sulphate carbonate hydrate. The possibility is considered that sulphate anions may substitute partially in the brucite-like layers to compensate for a deficiency of hydroxyl ions.
Diffuse reflectance spectra and optical properties of some iron and titanium oxides and oxyhydroxides
Authors: Strens R. G. J. , Wood B. J. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryThe reliability and utility of diffuse reflectance spectra are briefly but critically reviewed. The results of measurements of diffuse reflectance over the wavelength range 200 < λ < 2500 nm are reported for wüstite, magnetite, hematite, maghemite, ilmenite, ulvöspinel, and α-FeO · OH (goethite), β-FeO 7sd OH, γ-FeO · OH (lepidocrocite), and δ-FeO · OH. The spectra have been assigned by reference to simplified molecular-orbital energy-level diagrams derived from recent SCF-Xα calculations.The specular reflectances reported in the Quantitative Data File (Henry, 1977) are related to the diffuse reflectance spectra in a rational way. Minerals that absorb strongly throughout the visible display little dispersion of specular reflectance, and their powders are dark (wüstite, magnetite, ilmenite, ulvöspinel); those that absorb much more strongly in the near ultraviolet than in the visible have specular reflectances that decrease monotonically from blue to red according to a simple dispersion relation derived by combining the Sellmeier dispersion and Fresnel reflexion equations; their powders are strongly coloured (hematite, maghemite, lepidocrocite, goethite) and their optical anisotropy is closely related to crystal structure.
The iron-rich blueschist facies minerals: 2. Howieite
Authors: Wood Robert Muir 
Published: December 2006

SummaryThe mineral howieite has a stability range that extends down to pressures at, or even below, those normally considered to represent blueschist facies metamorphism. Its structure, lying somewhere between a chain and a sheet silicate, can accommodate almost complete iron for manganese substitution as well as the more extraordinary ferrous iron for ferric iron substitution, that is tolerated by changes in the hydroxyl and water content of the unit cell. The ideal formula is NaM12 Si12(O,OH)44, where M is principally manganese and iron but may include limited amounts of aluminium and magnesium. Four new localities for howieite have been discovered by the author and the howieites from the eight localities that have been analysed here help complete the compositional spectrum. The most curious crystallographic feature of howieite is that although the structure seems capable of considerable chemical variation, it is only those howieites of approximate NaMn3Fe8(AlMg)1Si12(O,OH)44 composition that are well crystallized, often growing to over 10 mm in length.
The origin of a tetrahedral diamond
Authors: Seager A. F. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryThe symmetry of diamond is still disputed, and is usually regarded as 4/m3̄2/m or 4̄3m. The (rare) development of tetrahedral morphology has been cited in favour of the lower symmetry. A tetrahedral crystal of c. 4 mm edge-length was studied for evidence relevant to this controversy. Three similar quadrants have nearly plane tetrahedron faces, each surrounded by six curved surfaces belonging to forms {hkl}. The fourth (unique) quadrant, containing (IĪĪ), differs topographically. In the three similar quadrants the tetrahedron faces exhibit coplanar banding of trigons parallel to (IĪĪ), and the curved surfaces have striations parallel to it. The banding and striations are interpreted as stratigraphic etching of nitrogen-rich layers parallel to (IĪĪ) in a type I diamond. Slip, and apparently polygonization, occur in the unique quadrant. The three similar {III} faces were formed by cleavage, and the curved surfaces, banding, and striations by subsequent dissolution. It is probable that (IĪĪ) was part of an original octahedral surface, since tetrahedra of diamond are so rare. The tetrahedral morphology does not necessarily indicate that this crystal belongs to class 4̄3m. The doubt cast upon tetrahedral morphology (and the inferred twinning on {100} or about (100>) as evidence in favour of lower symmetry strengthens the case for assigning diamond to class 4/m3̄2/m.
Cobalt-, nickel-, and iron-bearing sulpharsenides from the north of England
Authors: Ixer R. A. , Stanley C. J. , Vaughan D. J. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryWithin the Alston Orefield of the North Pennines, glaucodot and gersdorffite have been found in samples from Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, and zoned gersdorffite has been found from Nenthead and the Great Sulphur Vein. At Scar Crag in the English Lake District, glaucodot and alloclase (the first reported occurrence in the United Kingdom) occur associated with arsenopyrite and minor cobaltite and skutterudite. The mineralogy and parageneses of these associations have been studied by ore microscopy, X-ray powder photography, and electron probe microanalysis.Electron probe microanalysis shows a considerable range in nickel content in the sulpharsenides from the Alston Orefield with a relatively constant Co:Fe ratio. Samples from Scar Crag contain no nickel but exhibit almost a complete range of Co:Fe ratios from FeAsS to CoAsS. The compositions of the Alston Orefield sulpharsenides, in particular, show them to be metastable phases when compared with data from synthetic studies. At Tynebottom Mine, glaucodot and gersdorffite overgrow arsenical marcasite, and at Nenthead and the Great Sulphur Vein, early pyrite framboids or euhedra act as cores to zoned gersdorffite crystals. The Scar Crag sulpharsenides occur in a quartz chlorite apatite vein with the glaucodot and alloclase as overgrowths on arsenopyrite.In the case of the Scar Crag association, consideration of the compositions of coexisting phases, together with precise determinations of the arsenic content of the arsenopyrites, has permitted speculation regarding temperatures and sulphur activities during ore formation. Estimated ranges are Tc. 400 °C–300 °C and aS2 ≈ 10−9–10−11 11 bar. The occurrence of the sulpharsenides in the Alston Orefield correlates with further geochemical differences compared to other Pennine ores, differences that have been linked to higher temperatures of formation and a magmatic contribution to the ore-forming fluid. The Scar Crag mineralization may be related to a postulated stock intrusion beneath Causey Pike and the geographical proximity of the Alston and Scar Crag occurrences does suggest the possibility of a genetic link.
Nickeloan hydrozincite: a new variety
Authors: Alwan A. K. , Williams P. A. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryExtensive substitution of Ni for Zn in hydrozincite from the Parc Mine, North Wales, has been observed. This is the first time that a substantial concentration of another transition metal in this mineral has been reported. The average composition of the nickeloan hydrozincite is Zn4.63Ni0.37(CO3)2(OH)6. The relationship of this new variety to other secondary carbonate-containing nickel minerals is discussed, as is the possibility of substitution of other transition metal ions into the hydrozincite lattice.
Irregularities in patterns of element partition
Authors: Henderson Paul 
Published: December 2006

SummaryIn clinopyroxene-melt systems the distribution of chromium and vanadium ions departs from the general pattern of element partition as a function of ionic radius. These departures may be explained by crystal-field effects. Melt structure and the nature of the coordination of cations in the melt also help to determine the pattern of distribution and the extent of the departures from regularity.
Origin of anomalous iron meteorites
Authors: Scott Edward R. D. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryAnomalous iron meteorites are those which do not have Ni, Ga, and Ge contents appropriate to one of the twelve chemical groups; they account for 14% of all irons. The chemistry of irons in the twelve groups can be largely understood in terms of primary fractionation in the nebula, which established the bulk composition of the groups, and secondary fractionation in the parent bodies (probably fractional crystallization), which produced the chemical trends within groups. Logarithmic element-Ga graphs containing data for groups and anomalous irons reveal that anomalous irons experienced the same primary and secondary fractionations as affected the groups.The uniformity of chemical trends within groups allows possible genetic relationships between anomalous irons and groups and among anomalous irons to be tested. It is concluded that the sixty-nine anomalous irons are samples from fifty-odd additional groups, which had similar histories to the twelve groups. Less than five of the anomalous irons could be compositional end- members or reprocessed irons from the groups.Because ‘anomalous’ means abnormal, some other term for the irons which do not belong to the twelve groups would be a useful reminder that these irons formed in a similar way to irons in the major groups. They could be called members of minor groups or grouplets.
Vigezzite, (Ca, Ce) (Nb, Ta,Ti)2O6, a new aeschynite-type mineral from the Alps
Authors: Graeser S. , Schwander H. , Hänni H. , Mattioli V. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryA new mineral species, vigezzite (Ca,Ce) (Nb,Ta,Ti)2O6, was found near Orcesco, Valle Vigezzo, Prov. Novara, Northern Italy. It forms fiat prismatic crystals up to 2–3 mm length of an orange-yellow colour. The crystals are elongated along the a-axis and flattened on (010). Cleavage at right angles to the prism axis is distinct, fracture conchoidal. Vickers hardness VHN = 396 kp/mm2, corresponding to in the Mohs scale. Refraction indices are high: α = 2.14, γ = 2.315 (NaD, 589 µm), birefringence is 0.175. Optic angle 2Vγ is large. Though intensively yellow coloured, the mineral shows no pleochroism. α = c, β = b, γ = a; optic axial plane is parallel to (010).Vigezzite is orthorhombie with space group Pmnb or P21nb; a = 7.559±0.01, b = 11.028±0.01, c = 5.360± 0.004 Å, Z = 4. The six strongest lines of the X-ray powder pattern are 4.821 (9) (011), 3.784 (8) (200), 3.036 (10) (031), 2.974 (10) (211), 1.7129 (6) (242), 1.6018 (7) (431).Electron microprobe analyses lead to the empirical formula (Ca0.82Ce0.24)Σ1.06(Nb0.9Ta0.62Ti0.5)Σ2.02O6. The mineral is not completely homogenous, the ratio Nb/(Nb+Ta) varies from 0.55–0.62. Rynersonite Ca (Ta,Nb)2O6, may represent the Ta-dominant equivalent of vigezzite. Vigezzite occurs together with several other Nb-minerals such as pyrochlore, columbite and fersmite, whose crystallographical and chemical data are reported, in an albitic rock of presumably pegmatitic origin.
The Karroo dolerites of southern Malawi and their regional geochemical implications
Authors: Woolley A. R. , Bevan J. C. , Elliott C. J. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryThe field relationships, petrography and mineralogy, including probe analyses of olivines, pyroxenes, and plagioclases, of the Karroo dolerite dike swarm of southern Malawi, are described. Rock analyses are given and define a typical tholeiitic trend of iron enrichment. The most magnesian rocks are thought to represent fairly picritic liquids. A number of authors have shown that there are significant geochemical differences between the basaltic rocks of the northern and southern parts of the Karroo outcrop in southern Africa, notably for elements such as Al, P, K, Ti, and Ba. The Malawi data presented here, however, show trends that are the reverse of those found hitherto, the Malawi dolerites being closely comparable with the rocks of the central Karroo basin of South Africa and Basutoland. The striking regional variation in the geochemistry of the Karroo basaltic rocks over southern Africa is independent of the tectonics or position vis-à-vis the central Karroo basin, and so probably reflects mantle heterogeneity.
Wolfeite and barbosalite from Thackaringa, Australia
Authors: Plimer I. R. , Blucher I. D. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryWolfeite (Fe,Mn)2PO4(OH) and barbosalite FeIIFeIII2(PO4)2(OH)2 are the principal phases in phosphate pods from the core of a zoned altered granitic pegmatite at Thackaringa. Chemical analyses of the wolfeite show it to be Fe-rich and extends the triploiditewolfeite isomorphous series (Frondel, 1949) from ΣFe/Mn = 3·39 (this study) to greater than 100 (Clark and Couper, 1979).
Diffuse reflectance spectra and optical properties of some sulphides and related minerals
Authors: Wood B. J. , Strens R. G. J. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryThe results of measurements of diffuse reflectance over the wavelength range 200 < λ < 2500 nm are reported for sphalerite, cinnabar, alabandite, chalcopyrite, bornite, orpiment, stibnite, bismuthinite, enargite, and pyrargyrite, and for eight pyrite-type and four NiAs-type compounds. Some spectral assignments have been made.Optical properties are related to the absorption spectrum (and through this to composition and structure) in a rational way. Absolute reflectances tend to increase with mean atomic number (z) through the operation of the ‘z-sum rule’, and at constant z they decrease as the band gap increases. Bireflectance is structurally controlled, being weak in derivatives of the cubic sphalerite and pyrite structures, moderate in derivatives of wurtzite and NiAs, and strong in anisodesmic structures such as that of stibnite. Extreme bireflectance occurs in anisodesmic structures with strong dichroic absorption bands in the visible (molybdenite, covelline).The dispersion of reflectance (dR/dλ) depends on the position of the centre of the main absorption envelopein relation to the visible spectrum. For λ >, dispersion is normal (Rblue>Rred, dR/dλ negative), the streak is light or coloured, and polished surfaces tend to be bluish. For λ <, dispersion is reversed (Rred>Rblue), the streak is dark, and polished surfaces are yellowish. Polished surfaces are white or grey if absorption varies little through the visible or strongly coloured if it varies rapidly (covelline, chalcopyrite).
Fractures induced by shock in quartz and feldspar
Authors: Lambert P. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryThis study is devoted to fractures produced by natural and artificial shock processes in non-porous rocks consisting essentially of quartz and feldspar. Petrological and textural investigations were performed using optical and scanning electron microscopic techniques. A microfracturation index is adapted from Short (1966, 1968a, b) in order to compare the fracture densities in different materials shocked in different ways. In all cases, the density of fractures in quartz and feldspar increases with increasing pressure to about 200 kb. At higher pressure this trend is reversed. Fracturing is more intense in feldspar than in quartz. Plane shock waves produced in laboratory scale experiments induce more fracturing than natural shock waves. However, such an increase is no larger than the scatter among the data and the experimental technique used in the laboratory can be considered realistic in terms of fracturing. Finally the correlation between pressure and fracture density is too poor to be of use for quantitative pressure calibrations of naturally shocked materials.There is no direct correlation between the density of fractures and the number of planar elements observed. There is a negative correlation between fracturing and formation of diaplectic glass, Diaplectic glasses are remarkably weakly fractured compared with shocked minerals. The abrupt change in the slope of the curve giving the dependency of the density of fractures with pressure corresponds to the pressure at which diaplectic glass is formed. From petrographic considerations it is deduced that fracturing occurs at the end of the shock sequence, on pressure release, while diaplectic glasses are forming or already formed. Hypotheses of mechanical and thermal fracturing are examined; both are plausible, but a thermal origin may be preferred. The mechanism of formation of diaplectic glass is discussed with respect to results and deductions obtained by the study of fracturing. Diaplectic glass could represent a decompressed highdensity glass resulting from a single state transformation of a mineral, at high pressure.
The aqueous chemistry of uranium minerals. Part I. Divalent cation zippeïte
Authors: Haacke David F. , Williams Peter A. 
Published: December 2006

SynopsisFree energies of formation of divalent metal ion zippeïtes, M2(UO2)6(SO4)3(OH)10 ·nH2O, M = Mg,Co,Ni,Zn have been determined from solution studies and metal speciation calculations, in water. It is found that in the compounds, the number of molecules of water of crystallization is equal to 8. This is at variance with a previous report (Frondel et al., 1976), but it has been found that some at least of the water content of zippeite is either nonessential or very loosely bound in the structure. Based on the octahydrate formulation, values are −3506, −12695, −12683 and −12870±4 kJ mol−1 for the Mg,Co,Ni and Zn end-members, respectively. Almost all of the differences in the values are accounted for by those values for the metal ions alone with the exception of Znzippeïte where a discrepancy of some 22 kJ mol−1 is found. Even this value is small however, and the chemical studies indicate that extensive mutual solid solution between all end members is to be expected. These findings agree perfectly with observations on the composition of naturally occurring zippeite minerals of this group.
The occurrence of högbomite and taaffeite in a spinel-phlogopite schist from the Mount Painter Province of South Australia
Authors: Teale Graham S. 
Published: December 2006

SummaryA spinel-phlogopite schist from the Mount Painter Province of South Australia forms part of a highly magnesium- and aluminium-rich unit and contains the minerals högbomite and taaffeite. Taaffeite nucleated in spinel during upper amphibolite facies metamorphism. During a subsequent upper amphibolite facies metamorphic event both spinel and taaffeite were partially replaced by högbomite. Chemical analyses of högbomite, taaffeite, and spinel are presented.