Known only in the Russian literature and not an official mineral name; the accepted name is tosudite.
Known only in the Russian literature and not an official mineral name; the accepted name is tosudite.
A (trioctahedral) platy serpentine mineral of ideal composition of Mg2Al(Si,Al)O5(OH)4. Fe2+, Mn, Cr, Ni, and vacancies may substitute for Mg and viAl in natural samples. Natural occurrences are rare and have been noted from the Saranovskoye chrome deposit, North Urals Mountains, Russia; Chester, Massachusetts, USA; Mount Sobotka, Poland; Postmasburg, South Africa; Lake Asbestos Mine, Black Lake, Quebec, Canada; and Antarctica. The Quebec occurrence involves a rodingitized granite within a serpentinized peridotite. Stacking disorder is common but, where regular layer stacking occurs, it is most often based on a distorted 2H2 layer sequence (space group C1).
Cf., kellyite, zinalsite.
An obsolete term for muscovite.
An obsolete term for tobelite.
An obsolete term for tobelite.
A term describing a non-crystalline phase where the constituent components (i.e., atoms, ions, molecules) are without long-range order, i.e., not related by translation periodicity. There are many variations of such order or lack of order, for example, glasses commonly occur where atoms are arranged as coordination groups of tetrahedra (e.g., four oxygen ions in coordination about a silicon ion). Such tetrahedra share vertices to define local structure similar to that of crystalline phases; however, such groups of atoms are not related by long-range translation periodicity. This type of short-range order is much different than a simple random positioning of atoms. Amorphous character can be described by the nature of the analysis, e.g., such that the material may produce an X-ray diffraction pattern without discrete maxima, hence, “X-ray amorphous”.
Cf., non-crystalline, crystalline
An obsolete term for muscovite.
A trioctahedral member of the brittle mica group. The end-member formula is: BaFe2+3(Fe3+Si3)O10S,OH. Typical site substitutions include: Ba > K,Na; Mg, Fe3+, Mn, Al for Fe2+; and S > OH,Cl,F. Anandite occurs in a banded magnetite-barite-sulfide ore within meta- sedimentary granulite facies at the Wilagedera iron ore prospect, North Western Province, Sri Lanka, and it has been reported at Rush Creek and Big Creek, Fresno County, California, USA, and Sterling Hill, New Jersey, USA, although the latter occurrences are in doubt because of the lack of structural S, a requirement for the species (Bujnowski et al., 2009). Anandite occurs as 2O and 2M1 polytypes, and a 2M polytype based on a 1M stacking sub-structure.
A discredited term for kaolinite.
A zone of transition from late diagenesis to low-grade metamorphism. The anchizone is defined by Kübler indices between 0.42 and 0.25 in mudrock lithologies.
Cf., diagenesis, Kübler index