GEHLENITE FROM THREE OCCURRENCES OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SKARNS, ROMANIA: NEW MINERALOGICAL DATA
GEHLENITE FROM THREE OCCURRENCES OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SKARNS, ROMANIA: NEW MINERALOGICAL DATA
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DOI:
10.3749/canmin.49.4.1001
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发表时间:
2011-08-01
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0.9
通讯作者:
Rondeaux, Melanie
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作者:
Marincea, Stefan;Dumitras, Delia-Georgeta;Rondeaux, Melanie
Gehlenite is a common mineral in three high-temperature calcic skarns in Romania: Magureaua Vatei and Cornet Hill in Apuseni Mountains and Oravita in Banat. In all three occurrences, a gehlenite zone occurs within the contact between dioritic or monzodioritic bodies of Upper Cretaceous age and carbonaceous sequences of Mesozoic age. The melilite solid-solutions vary from Ak(34.1) to Ak(51.2) (mean Ak(41.2)) at Oravita, from Ak(30.4) to Ak(42.9) (mean Ak(38.3)) at Magureaua Vatei, and from Ak(24.3) to Ak(41.7) (mean Ak(32.9)) at Cornet Hill, respectively. The content of "Na-melilite" is low, from up to 1.96 mol.% at Cornet Hill to up to 3.60 mol.% at Oravita. The cell parameter a ranges from 7.679(3) to 7.734(3) angstrom at Oravita, from 7.683(4) to 7.735(1) angstrom at Magureaua Vatei, and from 7.684(3) to 7.733(1) angstrom at Cornet Hill, whereas c varies from 5.043(3) to 5.065(3) angstrom at Oravita, from 5.040(1) to 5.070(3) angstrom at Magureaua Vatei, and from 5.044(1) to 5.067(4) angstrom at Cornet Hill. It is not possible to quantify the variations in the crystallographic parameters by considering only the akermanitic substitution because the "Na-melilite" and "Fe-akermanite" substitutions also play an important role. The cell parameter a remains practically constant within experimental errors, in spite of the increasing akermanite-for-gehlenite substitution, due to the opposite influence of the "Na-melilite" component. The akermanite substitution prevails over the opposite influence of "Na-melilite" in increasing the cell volume, and is additive to the influence of "Na-melilite" in decreasing the cell parameter c. The record in the infrared-absorption spectra of bands located at similar to 855 cm(-1) and similar to 670 cm(-1), respectively, which may be tentatively assigned to Al-O-Al stretching, is indicative of the presence of gehlenite-rich members of the melilite group in all the three occurrences.