Oxy-dravite from Wołowa Góra Mountain, Karkonosze massif, SW Poland

Autor(en)
Adam Pieczka, Andreas Ertl, Mateusz P. Sęk, Diana Twardak, Sylwia Zelek, Eligiusz Szełęg, Gerald Giester
Abstrakt

Yellowish dravitic tourmaline (dominated by the oxy-dravite component) associated with secondary fluor-dravite/fluor-schorl and dravite/schorl tourmalines was found in a quartz vein cropping out in the eastern part of the Karkonosze Mountains range, SW Poland. The crystal structure of this tourmaline was refined to an R1 value of 1.85% based on single-crystal data, and the chemical composition was determined by electron-microprobe analysis. The tourmaline, a representative of the alkali-tourmaline group, has the structural formula: (Na0.75Ca0.12□0.13)Σ1(Mg1.93Al0.95Ti0.06 V0.01)Σ3(Al5.38Mg0.62)Σ6B3Si6O27(OH)3(O0.46OH0.33F0.21)Σ1, and is characterized by an extremely high Mg/(Mg + Fe) ratio of 0.97-0.99, the WO2- content that reaches 0.59 apfu resulting in a local predominance of the oxy-dravitic component and Mg-Al disorder on the octahedral Y and Z sites of the order of 0.64 apfu. This disordering results in an increasing <Z-O> distance with ~1.925 Å, and unit-cell parameters a = 15.916(1) Å and c = 7.180(1) Å. The tourmaline formed during Variscan prograde metamorphism under the influence of a released (H2O,B,F)-bearing fluid. The fluid mobilized the most soluble components of partly altered silicic volcaniclastic material of the Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician bimodal volcanism to become the protolith for adjacent quartzo-feldspathic schists and amphibolites, and propagated them into the surrounding granitic gneisses of the Kowary unit in the eastern metamorphic cover of the Karkonosze granite.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
AGH University of Science and Technology, University of Silesia in Katowice
Journal
Mineralogical Magazine
Band
82
Seiten
913-928
Anzahl der Seiten
16
ISSN
0026-461X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2017.081.069
Publikationsdatum
2018
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105116 Mineralogie, 105113 Kristallographie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Geochemistry and Petrology
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/35e0ddc0-4710-48fd-83ca-6504cfb74473