Studies on the zeolites. Part V. Mesolite1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Extract
Mesolite was first recognized as a separate species by J. N. Fuchs (1816), being one of the three species into which he subdivided R. J. Haüy's species mesotype (1801). Its individuality has been repeatedly doubted, many workers regarding the mesotype group as an isomorphous series with natrolite and scolecite as the endmembers, and mesolite merely an intermediate isomorphous mixture. The frequent occurrence of intergrowths of mesolite with natrolite or scolecite is largely responsible for this confusion, these intergrowths frequently passing for single minerals, and being adduced as evidence of the occurrence of all intermediate compositions in the supposed isomorphous series. Faroelites, and mixtures containing faroelite, have also been analysed as mesolite from time to time.
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- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 143 , December 1933 , pp. 421 - 447
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1933
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