Calcite X050035 - RRUFF Database: Raman, X-ray, Infrared, and Chemistry

Calcite X050035

Name: Calcite
RRUFF ID: X050035
Ideal Chemistry: CaCO₃
Locality: Hilton Deposit, San Diego County, California, USA
Source: G.R. Rossman 178
Owner: Caltech
Description: Vein calcite from a sub-optical calcite mine consisting of excellent cleavage rhombs.
Status: The identification of this mineral has been determined only by Raman spectroscopy

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RAMAN SPECTRUM

Sample Description:

de-polarized laser oriented parallel to the c axis

Instrument settings:

none 785nm @ 100% of mW

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REFERENCES for Calcite
American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]
Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]
Freiesleben J C (1836) Calcit, Magazin für die Oryktographie von Sachsen, 7, 118-121 [view file]
Milton C, Axelrod J (1947) Fused wood-ash stones: Fairchildite K₂CO₃·CaCO₃, buetschliite 3K₂CO₃·2CaCO₃·6H₂O and calcite, CaCO₃, their essential components, American Mineralogist, 32, 607-624 [view file]
Porto S P S, Giordmaine J A, Damen T C (1966) Depolarization of Raman scattering in calcite, Physical Review, 147, 608-611
Moyd L (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Large nepheline and biotite crystals in calcite veins near Bancroft, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 302-303 [view file]
Northwood D O, Lewis D (1970) Strain induced calcite-aragonite transformation in calcium carbonate, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 216-224 [view file]
Pouliot G (1970) Study of carbonatitic calcites from Oka Que., The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 511-540 [view file]
Corlett M I, McIlreath I A (1974) An authigenic quartz-calcite-rutile assemblage in ordovician limestones, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 411-416 [view file]
Rutt H N, Nicola J H (1974) Raman spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 4522-4528
Borodin V L, Liutin V I, Iliukhin V V (1979) Calcite - otavite isomorphous series, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 245, 1099-1101 [view file]
Effenberger H, Mereiter K, Zemann J (1981) Crystal structure of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry of calcium type carbonates, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 233-243 [view file]
Shiga Y, Urashima Y (1987) A sodian sulfatian fluorapatite from an epithermal calcite-quartz vein of the Kushikino mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 673-681 [view file]
Meunier A, Clement J Y, Bouchet A, Beaufort D (1988) Chlorite-calcite and corrensite-dolomite crystallization during two superimposed events of hydrothermal alteration in the "Les Crêtes" granite, Vosges, France, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 413-422 [view file]
Mozley P S, Hoernle K (1990) Geochemistry of carbonate cements in the Sag River and Shublik Formation (Triassic/Jurassic), North Slope, Alaska: implications for the geochemical evolution of formation waters, Sedimentology, 37, 817-836
Chernosky J V, Berman R G (1991) Experimental reversal of the equilibrium andalusite + calcite + quartz = anorthite + CO₂, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 791-802 [view file]
Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates M^IICO₃ in the 1100-1000 cm^-1 region: observation of the v₁ mode of the isotopic (C¹⁶O₂¹⁸O)^2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750
Gunter W D, Perkins E H (1991) Use of calcite as a CO₂ geobarometer for estimation of reservoir pressures in thermally assisted oil recovery, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 755-765 [view file]
Kontak D J, Jackson S (1995) Laser-ablation ICP-MS micro-analysis of calcite cement from a Mississippi-Valley-type Zn-Pb deposit, Nova Scotia: dramatic variability in REE content on macro- and micro-scales, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 445-467 [view file]
Gillet P, McMillan P, Schott J, Badro J, Grzechnik A (1996) Thermodynamic properties and isotopic fractionation of calcite from vibrational spectroscopy of ¹⁸O-substituted calcite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60, 3471-3485
Kontoyannis C G, Orkoula M G, Koutsoukos P G (1997) Quantitative analysis of sulfated calcium carbonates using Raman spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction, Analyst, 122, 33-38
Mason R A (1997) The influence of heating on cathodoluminescence emission from natural calcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 723-733 [view file]
Gabrielli C, Jaouhari R, Joiret S, Maurin G (2000) In situ Raman spectroscopy applied to electrochemical scaling. Determination of the structure of vaterite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 497-501 [link]
Kontoyannis C G, Nikos V V (2000) Calcium carbonate phase analysis using XRD and FT-Raman, Analyst, 125, 251-255
Suito K, Namba J, Horikawa T, Taniguchi Y, Sakurai N, Kobayashi M, Onodera A, Shimomura O, Kikegawa T (2001) Phase relations of CaCO₃ at high pressure and high temperature, American Mineralogist, 86, 997-1002 [view file]
Zaitsev A N, Chakhmouradian A R (2002) Calcite – amphibole – clinopyroxene rock from the Afrikanda Complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia: mineralogy and a possible link to carbonatites. II. Oxysalt minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 103-120 [view file]
Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]
Nave D, Rosenwaks S, Vago R, Bar I (2004) Pulsed laser deposition of marine origin material: Preparation and characterization of CaCO₃ particles and CaO nanocrystals, Journal of Applied Physics, 95, 8309-8313 [link]
Prencipe M, Pascale F, Zicovich-Wilson C M, Saunders V R, Orlando R, Dovesi R (2004) The vibrational spectrum of calcite (CaCO₃): An ab initio quantum-mechanical calculation, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, issue 8 559-564 [link]
Schindler M, Hawthorne F C, Putnis C, Putnis A (2004) Growth of uranyl-hydroxy-hydrate and uranyl-carbonate minerals on the (104) surface of calcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1683-1697 [view file]
Schindler M, Putnis A (2004) Crystal growth of schoepite on the (104) surface of calcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1667-1681 [view file]
Catalli K, Williams Q (2005) A high-pressure phase transition of calcite-III, American Mineralogist, 90, 1679-1682 [view file]
Gunasekaran S, Anbalagan G, Pandi S (2006) Raman and infrared spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 37, 892-899
Glass B P, Fries M (2008) Micro-Raman spectroscopic study of fine-grained, shock-metamorphosed rock fragments from the Australasian microtektite layer, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 43, 1487-1496 [view file]
Buzgar N, Apopei A I (2009) The Raman study of certain carbonates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 55, 97-112 [view file]
Gaft M, Nagli L (2009) Gated Raman spectroscopy: potential for fundamental and applied mineralogy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 33-42
Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Temperature dependence of the structural parameters in the transformation of aragonite to calcite, as determined from in situ synchrotron powder X-ray-diffraction data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1225-1236
Rividi N, van Zuilen M, Philippot P, Ménez B, Godard G, Poidatz E (2010) Calibration of carbonate composition using micro-Raman analysis: Application to planetary surface exploration, Astrobiology, 10, 293-309

REFERENCES for Calcite

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record]

Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file]

Freiesleben J C (1836) Calcit, Magazin für die Oryktographie von Sachsen, 7, 118-121 [view file]

Milton C, Axelrod J (1947) Fused wood-ash stones: Fairchildite K₂CO₃·CaCO₃, buetschliite 3K₂CO₃·2CaCO₃·6H₂O and calcite, CaCO₃, their essential components, American Mineralogist, 32, 607-624 [view file]

Porto S P S, Giordmaine J A, Damen T C (1966) Depolarization of Raman scattering in calcite, Physical Review, 147, 608-611

Moyd L (1967) Abstract of paper presented at the twelfth annual meeting: Large nepheline and biotite crystals in calcite veins near Bancroft, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 9, 302-303 [view file]

Northwood D O, Lewis D (1970) Strain induced calcite-aragonite transformation in calcium carbonate, The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 216-224 [view file]

Pouliot G (1970) Study of carbonatitic calcites from Oka Que., The Canadian Mineralogist, 10, 511-540 [view file]

Corlett M I, McIlreath I A (1974) An authigenic quartz-calcite-rutile assemblage in ordovician limestones, The Canadian Mineralogist, 12, 411-416 [view file]

Rutt H N, Nicola J H (1974) Raman spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 7, 4522-4528

Borodin V L, Liutin V I, Iliukhin V V (1979) Calcite - otavite isomorphous series, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 245, 1099-1101 [view file]

Effenberger H, Mereiter K, Zemann J (1981) Crystal structure of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry of calcium type carbonates, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 156, 233-243 [view file]

Shiga Y, Urashima Y (1987) A sodian sulfatian fluorapatite from an epithermal calcite-quartz vein of the Kushikino mine, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 673-681 [view file]

Meunier A, Clement J Y, Bouchet A, Beaufort D (1988) Chlorite-calcite and corrensite-dolomite crystallization during two superimposed events of hydrothermal alteration in the "Les Crêtes" granite, Vosges, France, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 413-422 [view file]

Mozley P S, Hoernle K (1990) Geochemistry of carbonate cements in the Sag River and Shublik Formation (Triassic/Jurassic), North Slope, Alaska: implications for the geochemical evolution of formation waters, Sedimentology, 37, 817-836

Chernosky J V, Berman R G (1991) Experimental reversal of the equilibrium andalusite + calcite + quartz = anorthite + CO₂, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 791-802 [view file]

Cloots R (1991) Raman spectrum of carbonates M^IICO₃ in the 1100-1000 cm^-1 region: observation of the v₁ mode of the isotopic (C¹⁶O₂¹⁸O)^2- ion, Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 47, 1745-1750

Gunter W D, Perkins E H (1991) Use of calcite as a CO₂ geobarometer for estimation of reservoir pressures in thermally assisted oil recovery, The Canadian Mineralogist, 29, 755-765 [view file]

Kontak D J, Jackson S (1995) Laser-ablation ICP-MS micro-analysis of calcite cement from a Mississippi-Valley-type Zn-Pb deposit, Nova Scotia: dramatic variability in REE content on macro- and micro-scales, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 445-467 [view file]

Gillet P, McMillan P, Schott J, Badro J, Grzechnik A (1996) Thermodynamic properties and isotopic fractionation of calcite from vibrational spectroscopy of ¹⁸O-substituted calcite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60, 3471-3485

Kontoyannis C G, Orkoula M G, Koutsoukos P G (1997) Quantitative analysis of sulfated calcium carbonates using Raman spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction, Analyst, 122, 33-38

Mason R A (1997) The influence of heating on cathodoluminescence emission from natural calcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 723-733 [view file]

Gabrielli C, Jaouhari R, Joiret S, Maurin G (2000) In situ Raman spectroscopy applied to electrochemical scaling. Determination of the structure of vaterite, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 31, 497-501 [link]

Kontoyannis C G, Nikos V V (2000) Calcium carbonate phase analysis using XRD and FT-Raman, Analyst, 125, 251-255

Suito K, Namba J, Horikawa T, Taniguchi Y, Sakurai N, Kobayashi M, Onodera A, Shimomura O, Kikegawa T (2001) Phase relations of CaCO₃ at high pressure and high temperature, American Mineralogist, 86, 997-1002 [view file]

Zaitsev A N, Chakhmouradian A R (2002) Calcite – amphibole – clinopyroxene rock from the Afrikanda Complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia: mineralogy and a possible link to carbonatites. II. Oxysalt minerals, The Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 103-120 [view file]

Ondruš P, Veselovský F, Gabašová A, Hloušek J, Šrein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file]

Nave D, Rosenwaks S, Vago R, Bar I (2004) Pulsed laser deposition of marine origin material: Preparation and characterization of CaCO₃ particles and CaO nanocrystals, Journal of Applied Physics, 95, 8309-8313 [link]

Prencipe M, Pascale F, Zicovich-Wilson C M, Saunders V R, Orlando R, Dovesi R (2004) The vibrational spectrum of calcite (CaCO₃): An ab initio quantum-mechanical calculation, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 31, issue 8 559-564 [link]

Schindler M, Hawthorne F C, Putnis C, Putnis A (2004) Growth of uranyl-hydroxy-hydrate and uranyl-carbonate minerals on the (104) surface of calcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1683-1697 [view file]

Schindler M, Putnis A (2004) Crystal growth of schoepite on the (104) surface of calcite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 1667-1681 [view file]

Catalli K, Williams Q (2005) A high-pressure phase transition of calcite-III, American Mineralogist, 90, 1679-1682 [view file]

Gunasekaran S, Anbalagan G, Pandi S (2006) Raman and infrared spectra of carbonates of calcite structure, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 37, 892-899

Glass B P, Fries M (2008) Micro-Raman spectroscopic study of fine-grained, shock-metamorphosed rock fragments from the Australasian microtektite layer, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 43, 1487-1496 [view file]

Buzgar N, Apopei A I (2009) The Raman study of certain carbonates, Analele Stiintifice Ale Universitatii, Al. I. Cuza Iasi Geologie, 55, 97-112 [view file]

Gaft M, Nagli L (2009) Gated Raman spectroscopy: potential for fundamental and applied mineralogy, European Journal of Mineralogy, 21, 33-42

Antao S M, Hassan I (2010) Temperature dependence of the structural parameters in the transformation of aragonite to calcite, as determined from in situ synchrotron powder X-ray-diffraction data, The Canadian Mineralogist, 48, 1225-1236

Rividi N, van Zuilen M, Philippot P, Ménez B, Godard G, Poidatz E (2010) Calibration of carbonate composition using micro-Raman analysis: Application to planetary surface exploration, Astrobiology, 10, 293-309