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Name: Marialite RRUFF ID: R040113 Ideal Chemistry: Na4Al3Si9O24Cl Locality: Gouverneur, New York, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 4398 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Green prismatic crystal Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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Mineral Group: [ Scapolite (11) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Marialite samples (10) ] |
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POWDER DIFFRACTION | ||||||||
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RRUFF ID: | R040113.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 12.1082(4)Å b: 12.1082(4)Å c: 7.5787(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 90.° gamma: 90.° Volume: 1111.12(6)Å3 Crystal System: tetragonal |
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REFERENCES for Marialite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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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] |
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dAndrada J B (1800) Der Eigenschaften und Kennzeichen einiger neuen Fossilien aus Schweden und Norwegen nebst einigen chemischen Bemerkungen über dieselben, Allgemeines Journal der Chemie, 4, 28-39 [view file] |
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dAndrada J B (1801) Description of some new fossils (Old English translation), A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, 5, 193-196; 211-213 [view file] |
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Haüy R J (1801) Wernerite, Traité de Minéralogie, 3, 119-125 [view file] |
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vom Rath G (1866) Mineralogisch-geognostische Fragmente aus Italien, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 18, 487-642 [view file] |
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Pauling L (1930) The structure of some sodium and calcium aluminosilicates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 16, 453-459 [view file] |
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Papike J J, Zoltai T (1965) The crystal structure of a marialite scapolite, American Mineralogist, 50, 641-655 [view file] |
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Lin S B, Burley B J (1973) Crystal structure of a sodium and chlorine-rich scapolite, Acta Crystallographica, B29, 1272-1278 |
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Ulbrich H H (1973) Crystallographic data and refractive indices of scapolites, American Mineralogist, 58, 81-92 [view file] |
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Lin S B, Burley B J (1974) The crystal structure of an intermediate scapolite - wernerite, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 21, 196-215 |
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Llambías E J, Gordillo C E, Bedlivy D (1977) Scapolite veins in a quartz monzodiorite stock from Los Molles, Mendoza, Argentina, American Mineralogist, 62, 132-135 [view file] |
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Bayliss P (1987) Mineral nomenclature: scapolite, Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 176-176 [view file] |
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Zolotarev A A (1993) Gem scapolite from the Eastern Pamirs and some general consitutional features of scapolites, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 122, 90-102 [view file] |
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Sokolova E V, Kabalov Y K, Sherriff B L, Teertstra D K, Jenkins D M, Kunath-Fandrei G, Goetz S, Jäger C (1996) Marialite: Rietveld structure-refinement and 29Si MAS and 27Al satellite transition NMR spectroscopy, The Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 1039-1050 [view file] |
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Teertstra D K, Sherriff B L (1996) Scapolite cell-parameter trends along the solid-solution series, American Mineralogist, 81, 169-180 [view file] |
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Zolotarev A A (1996) Once more about schemes and rows of isomorphism within the scapolite group, Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 125, issue 1 69-73 [view file] |
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Antao S M, Hassan I (2008) Increase in Al-Si and Na-Ca disorder with temperature in scapolite Me32.9, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1577-1591 [view file] |
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Sokolova E, Hawthorne F C (2008) The crystal chemistry of the scapolite-group minerals. I. crystal structure and long-range order, The Canadian Mineralogist, 46, 1527-1554 [view file] |
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Antao S M, Hassan I (2011) Complete Al-Si order in scapolite Me37.5, ideally Ca3Na5[Al8Si16O48]Cl(CO3), and implications for antiphase domain boundaries (APBs), The Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 581-586 [view file] |
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Antao S M, Hassan I (2011) The structure of marialite (Me6) and meionite (Me93) in space groups P42/n and I4/m, and the absence of phase transitions in the scapolite series, International Centre for Diffraction Data, 26, 78-91 [view file] |
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Almeida K M F, Jenkins D M (2017) Stability field of the Cl-rich scapolite marialite, American Mineralogist, 102, 2484-2493 |
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