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The structure of wadeite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

D. E. Henshaw
D. E. Henshaw*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Western Australia
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Wadeite has been found only in a suite of leucite-lamproites from the West Kimberley area of Western Australia. The leucite-bearing rocks occur at a number of isolated volcanic vents that have in every instance broken through sedimentary deposits of Permian age. The nature of the mineral, wadeite, has been described by Prider. It is a potassium-zirconium silicate occurring as highly birefringent prisms up to 1 mm. in length with hexagonal-shaped basal sections. It is invariably replaced in part along the poor pyramidal cleavages by calcite.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 228 , March 1955 , pp. 585 - 595
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Copyright © 1955, The Mineralogical Society

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