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Mineral contains: merwinite
Larsen E S, Foshag W F (1921) Merwinite, a new calcium magnesium orthosilicate from Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist 6, 143-148
Moore P B (1973) Bracelets and pinwheels: A topological-geometrical approach to the calcium orthosilicate and alkali sulfate structures. American Mineralogist 58, 32-42
Moore P B, Araki T (1972) Atomic arrangement of merwinite, Ca3Mg[SiO4]2, an unusual dense-packed structure of geophysical interest. American Mineralogist 57, 1355-1374
Osborn E F (1943) The compound merwinite (3CaO·MgO·2SiO2) and its stability relations within the system CaO–MgO–SiO2 (preliminary report). Journal of the American Ceramic Society 26, 321-332
Phemister J, Nurse R W, Bannister F A, (1942) Merwinite as an artificial mineral. Mineralogical Magazine 26, 225-231
Roy D M (1956) Subsolidus data for the join Ca2SiO4—CaMgSiO4 and the stability of merwinite. Mineralogical Magazine 31, 187-194
Zedgenizov D A, Shatskiy A, Ragozin A L, Kagi H, Shatsky V S (2014) Merwinite in diamond from São Luiz, Brazil: A new mineral of the Ca-rich mantle environment. American Mineralogist 99, 547-550
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