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Pseudo-pleochroic Calcite in Recrystallized Shell-Limestones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. D. Hudson
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Abstract

Limestones consisting of recrystallized shells of lamellibranchs, originally composed of aragonite, contain a brown-coloured calcite which is strongly pleochroic. Maximum “absorption’ corresponds to the extraordinary ray. The effect is shown to be a pseudo-pleochroism, caused by scattering of the extraordinary ray by inclusions, which follow the shell structure, in the calcite. Aragonite shells, which have not recrystallized, show a pseudo-pleochroism of similar colour but reversed sign. The inclusions originate in the conchiolin of the lamellibranch shell; their present nature is not known. Their progressive destruction by thermal metamorphism is described.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 99 , Issue 6 , November 1962 , pp. 492 - 500
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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