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New Data on the Composition and Identification of Chlorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Bruce W. Nelson  and
Rustum Roy
Bruce W. Nelson
Affiliation:
School of Mineral Industries, The Pennsylvania State University, Contribution No. 53-42, USA
Rustum Roy
Affiliation:
School of Mineral Industries, The Pennsylvania State University, Contribution No. 53-42, USA
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Abstract

A series of clay minerals with a 7A series of reflections has been shown to exist in the MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O system. It has been demonstrated both on synthetic and natural samples that these minerals are polymorphous with the 14A-series chlorite minerals. Widespread occurrence of these minerals in nature is expected. The polymorphic relationship found clarifies the whole picture of the isomorphism of the chlorites. The problem of nomenclature of these 7 A series minerals is examined and the term “septechlorites” hesitantly proposed.

On the basis of some experimental work it is shown that the currently adopted procedure for the identification of chlorites is not generally valid, and that the factors of time, temperature, composition and particle size are of crucial importance in such procedures.

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Clays and Clay Minerals (National Conference on Clays and Clay Minerals) , Volume 2: Publication 327, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, October 15-17, 1953 , February 1953 , pp. 335 - 348
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Copyright © Clay Minerals Society 1953

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