Cordylite-(Ce)

Autor(en)
Gerald Giester, Yunxiang Ni, Dietmar Jarosch, John M. Hughes, Jørn Rønsbo, Zhuming Yang, Josef Zemann
Abstrakt

Six cordylites from the four known localities [Narssarssuk (Greenland), Mont St. Hilaire (Canada), Bayan Obo (China), and Kola Peninsula (Russia)] were investigated by electron microprobe and x-ray single-crystal structure detn., and a seventh sample was investigated by x-ray methods only. The material studied included type cordylite. The idealized formula for cordylite is redefined as (Na1-xCax/2)BaCe2(CO3)4F, 0 < x < 1, with Ce for the sum of REE; the SrO content may reach about 5.7%. All of our structure refinements (P63/mmc; a .simeq. 5.10, c .simeq. 23.10 .ANG.) agree very well among themselves and with the published structures of "baiyuneboite-(Ce)" and unnamed (Ca0.5.box.0.5)BaCe2(CO3)4F. Cordylite has a sheet structure formed of (001) layers of [Ba] [CO3] [Ce,CO3] [Na,F] [Ce,CO3] [CO3] [Ba] stacked along [001]. The interat. distances are as expected, with the exception of unshielded Na-F distances of 2.94 .ANG.; unlike the carbonate groups in bastnasite and synchysite, the carbonate groups in cordylite-(Ce) are parallel (001). Investigation of type cordylite showed that the formula proposed by Flink, i.e., BaCe2(CO3)3F2, is to be modified to that given above, with x .simeq. 0 for Flink's material. Baiyuneboite-(Ce), a mineral previously approved by the IMA CNMMN but later withdrawn because of potential similarities with cordylite, is confirmed here as being essentially identical to type cordylite.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
Miami University, Danish Geological Survey, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Journal
American Mineralogist: an international journal of earth and planetary materials
Band
83
Seiten
178-184
Anzahl der Seiten
7
ISSN
0003-004X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2138/am-1998-1-219
Publikationsdatum
02-1998
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105113 Kristallographie, 105116 Mineralogie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/cordylitece(327f6f04-d04e-4071-bccd-2c9e9611ec55).html