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A high-aluminous chlorite-swelling chlorite regular mixed-layer clay mineral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

R. O. Heckroodt
Affiliation:
Ceramics Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria
C. Roering
Affiliation:
Economic Geology Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Abstract

One of the alteration products of a deuteric altered beryl is a high-aluminous chlorite-swelling chlorite regular mixed-layer clay mineral. An attempt was made to calculate the structural formula, and the results of X-ray, differential thermal and electron diffraction analyses are given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1965

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