COPYRIGHT; LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ................................ ii
FOREWORD ...................................................... iii
PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................... iv
1 CLASSIFICATION and STRUCTURES of the MICAS
S.W. Bailey
INTRODUCTION .................................................... 1
STANDARD MICA POLYTYPES ......................................... 5
NATURAL MICA STRUCTURES ......................................... 8
REFERENCES ..................................................... 12
2 CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY of the TRUE MICAS
S.W. Bailey
SHEET CONFIGURATIONS ........................................... 13
Dioctahedral distortions .................................... 13
Trioctahedral distortions ................................... 16
TETRAHEDRAL-OCTAHEDRAL LATERAL FIT ............................. 16
Ideal lateral dimensions .................................... 16
Tetrahedral rotation ........................................ 17
Changes in sheet thicknesses ................................ 19
Tetrahedral tilt and basal surface corrugation .............. 28
Limits of strain ............................................ 29
INTERLAYER REGION .............................................. 31
Size of cavity .............................................. 31
Layer offsets in K-micas .................................... 32
Intralayer overshifts in relation to β angle ................ 33
Interlayer cation coordination .............................. 34
Layer offset in paragonite; Location of H+ proton ........... 35
CALCULATED STRUCTURAL MODELS ................................... 37
CATION ORDER AND DISORDER ...................................... 38
Ordering of tetrahedral cations ............................. 40
Ordering of octahedral cations .............................. 44
Ordering of interlayer cations .............................. 50
Local charge balance ........................................ 51
Standardized cation notation ................................ 52
SHORT RANGE ORDERING ........................................... 54
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................ 56
REFERENCES ..................................................... 57
3 The BRITTLE MICAS
Stephen Guggenheim
INTRODUCTION ................................................... 61
NOMENCLATURE AND GENERAL CHEMICAL CLASSIFICATION ............... 61
CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF THE BRITTLE MICAS ......................... 64
Introduction ................................................ 64
Charge considerations; Sheet size considerations ......... 65
Cation ordering ............................................. 66
Octahedral ordering ...................................... 70
Tetrahedral ordering ..................................... 75
Interlayer region ........................................... 82
Orientation of the О--H vector ........................... 84
PHASE RELATIONS OF MARGARITE AND CLINTONITE .................... 85
Introduction ................................................ 85
Margarite ................................................... 86
Margarite/paragonite ± musaovite ......................... 94
Clintonite .................................................. 94
RELATIONSHIP OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURE TO STABILITY ................. 97
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 100
REFERENCES .................................................... 101
4 ELECTROSTATIC ENERGY MODELS of MICAS
R.F. Giese, Jr.
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 105
METHOD OF CALCULATION ......................................... 107
APPLICATIONS TO MICAS ......................................... 110
STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS ........................................ 111
Octahedral distortions; Tetrahedral distortion ................ 112
HYDROXYL ORIENTATIONS ......................................... 114
Ionic model ................................................ 115
Possible errors ............................................ 117
OH orientations in micas ................................... 118
Mixed tri- and dioctahedral micas .......................... 121
INTERLAYER BONDING ............................................ 123
Ionic model ................................................ 123
Calculation of interlayer bonding .......................... 124
Interlayer bonding of micas ................................ 126
Substitution of F for OH ................................... 128
CATION ORDERING ............................................... 129
Theoretical considerations ................................. 131
Order/disorder in trioctahedral M sites .................... 132
Order/disorder in dioctahedral T sites ..................... 136
SUMMARY ....................................................... 139
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 140
REFERENCES .................................................... 141
5 SPECTROSCOPY of MICAS
George R. Rossman
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 145
OPTICAL SPECTRA AND COLOR ..................................... 145
Individual ions; Fe2+ in phlogopite-biotite ................ 147
Fe2+ in muscovite .......................................... 148
Fe3+ in muscovite; Fe3+ in biotite ......................... 149
The role of iron in the color of muscovite ................. 149
Cr3+ in micas .............................................. 150
Lepidolites: the role of Mn and Fe; Ti in micas ............ 151
Interactions between cations ............................... 152
Mn in phlogopite; Other micas .............................. 154
Reverse pleochroism -- tetrahedral ferric iron ............. 156
Reverse pleochroism -- pink muscovite; The ultraviolet
region ..................................................... 157
Future needs ............................................... 158
MÖSSBAUER SPECTRA ............................................. 158
Biotite .................................................... 158
Muscovite .................................................. 160
Glauconite ................................................. 162
Clintonite; Other micas; Commentary ........................ 163
ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTRA ............................... 163
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTRA ............................ 164
X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY ............................................ 168
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy ........................... 168
INFRARED SPECTRA .............................................. 169
OH groups and their orientation ............................ 169
Cation ordering ............................................ 171
The far-infrared spectral region ........................... 172
RAMAN SPECTRA ................................................. 173
NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA ......................................... 173
RADIATION HALOES AND OTHER RADIATION EFFECTS .................. 174
OXIDATION AND DEHYDROXYLATION OF BIOTITE ...................... 174
QUANTITATIVE INTENSITIES AND ANALYTICAL DETERMINATIONS ........ 175
CONCLUDING REMARKS ............................................ 176
REFERENCES .................................................... 177
6 OPTICAL PROPERTIES of MICAS
under the POLARIZING MICROSCOPE
Ray E. Wilcox
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 183
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INDIVIDUAL MINERALS ..................... 183
Explanation of tables ...................................... 184
Variation of optical properties with chemical
composition ................................................ 192
METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES ............... 196
Determination in immersion liquids ......................... 196
Coated slide technique .................................. 197
Spindle stage technique ................................. 197
Determinations in thin sections ............................ 198
SUMMARY ....................................................... 199
REFERENCES .................................................... 200
7 EXPERIMENTAL PHASE RELATIONS of the MICAS
David A. Hewitt & David R. Wones
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 201
SUBSOLIDUS PHASE RELATIONS OF THE DIOCTAHEDRAL MICAS ...... 202
Stability of muscovite and muscovite + quartz .............. 202
Stability of paragonite and paragonite + quartz ............ 204
The system muscovite-paragonite-quartz .................... 206
Stability of margarite and margarite + quartz .............. 207
Stability of pyrophyllite .................................. 211
SUBSOLIDUS PHASE RELATIONS FOR THE TRIOCTAHEDRAL MICAS ........ 213
Stability of end-member biotites ........................... 213
Stability of biotite solid solutions ..................... 219
Stability of talc .......................................... 226
Stability of other micas and mica reactions ................ 228
MELTING EQUILIBRIA OF MICAS ................................... 228
Melting of phlogopite ...................................... 228
Micas and siliceous melts .................................. 238
Muscovites in granitic plutons -- an attempt at
geobarometry ............................................... 244
REFERENCES .................................................... 247
8 PARAGENESIS, CRYSTALLOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS,
and GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION of MICAS in GRANITE
PEGMATITES
Petr Čеrný & Donald M. Burt
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 257
SOME DEFINITIONS AND OBJECTIVES ............................... 258
Classification of granitic pegmatites ...................... 258
Internal structure of granitic pegmatites .................. 259
Mica species in granitic pegmatites ........................ 259
Graphic representation ..................................... 260
Limitations of scope ....................................... 261
MICA ASSEMBLAGES IN OROGENIC PEGMATITES ....................... 261
Muscovite pegmatites ....................................... 261
Rare-element (and miarolitic) pegmatites ................... 262
Gadolinite type; Beryl-columbite types Complex type ..... 262
Spodumene type; Lepidolite type ......................... 263
Late muscovite alteration; Exomorphic micas ............. 263
MICA ASSEMBLAGES IN ANDROGENIC PEGMATITES ..................... 264
Rare-element pegmatites; Miarolitic pegmatites ............. 264
CRYSTALLOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND POLYTYPISM .............. 265
Phlogopite - biotite ....................................... 265
Muscovite - lithian muscovite - lepidolite ................. 266
Zinnwaldite - masutomilite ................................. 269
Exomorphic micas ........................................... 270
VECTOR PRESENTATION OF LITHIUM MICA COMPOSITIONS .............. 270
The concept; Capacity and limitations ...................... 271
Planar subsystems .......................................... 272
The 3-dimensional polyhedron ............................... 276
GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF PEGMATITE MICAS ...................... 279
Micas of orogenic pegmatites ............................... 279
Muscovite pegmatites; Rave-element pegmatites .............. 279
Micas of anorogenic subalkalic pegmatites .................. 283
GENETIC ASPECTS OF MICA CRYSTALLIZATION IN GRANITIC
PEGMATITES .................................................... 284
Muscovite pegmatite class .................................. 284
Rare-element (and miarolitic) class of orogenic suites ..... 285
Biotite; Muscovite; Lepidolite .......................... 285
Zinnwaldite ............................................. 287
Late muscovite alteration; Exomorphic micas ............. 288
Rare-element (and miarolitic) class of anorogenic suites ... 290
CONCLUDING NOTE ............................................... 290
REFERENCES .................................................... 292
9 MICAS in IGNEOUS ROCKS
J. Alexander Speer
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 299
OXYGEN AND WATER FUGACITIES ................................... 299
Oxygen fugacity ............................................ 300
Water fugacity ............................................. 305
BIOTITES COEXISTING WITH OTHER MINERALS ....................... 307
Amphibole .................................................. 307
Aluminous minerals ......................................... 313
Apatite .................................................... 315
Feldspars .................................................. 317
Magnetite; Muscovite ....................................... 318
ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION .......................................... 319
Geochronology .............................................. 319
Wall-rock/igneous rock interaction ......................... 320
Geothermometry ............................................. 323
MUSCOVITE IN IGNEOUS ROCKS .................................... 325
Texture; Chemistry ......................................... 326
Mineral assemblage; Occurrence ............................. 329
IGNEOUS MICAS AS METALLOGENIC INDICATORS ...................... 330
SUBSOLIDUS ALTERATION ......................................... 332
HALOGENS IN BIOTITE ........................................... 335
Fluorine ................................................... 335
Chlorine ................................................... 338
INTERLAYER SITES .............................................. 340
Ammonium ................................................... 340
Barium ..................................................... 341
Calcium; Sodium ............................................ 342
RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN BIOTITES ............................... 342
PETROLOGY ..................................................... 343
Occurrence ................................................. 343
Indicators of magnetic evolution ........................... 347
Hybrid rocks ............................................... 348
REFERENCES .................................................... 349
10 MICAS in METAMORPHIC ROCKS
Charles V. Guidotti
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 357
DIOCTAHEDRAL WHITE MICAS ...................................... 360
White micas from a mineralogic perspective ................. 360
Observed chemical variation of the white mioas .......... 360
The system NaAlO2-KAlO2-CaAl2O3-SiO2-H2O ............. 360
Theoretical and experimental studies bearing upon
the solvi of the ideal white mica plane: Comparison
with natural data .................................... 363
White mica compositional deviation from the ideal
system ............................................... 363
Details of the deviation of muscovite from the
ideal white mica plane ............................... 366
Phengite = celadonite = Tschermak substitution ... 367
The substitution of Fe3+ for Alvi ................. 371
The substitution of Ti into the octahedral
sites ............................................. 371
Substitution of F and Cl for (OH) ................. 372
Deviation of ideal Mu from dioctahedral to
trioctahedral ..................................... 373
Substitutions involving 12-coordinated (XII)
sites ............................................. 374
Miscellaneous compositional variations in
muscovite ......................................... 375
White mica lattice spacings and polytypes .............. 375
Composition versus lattice spacings and cell
volume ............................................... 376
General summary of the composition versus lattice
spacing relationships ................................ 379
White mica polymorphs in metamorphic rocks ........... 379
Crystal chemistry of the white micas ....................... 380
Chemical variation within the ideal white mica
systems ................................................. 380
Deviations from the ideal mica plane .................... 381
Effects of celadonite substitution on lattice
dimensions ........................................... 382
Interrelationships between substitutions in XII and
substitutions in the octahedral and tetrahedral
sites ................................................ 382
Other substitutions .................................. 383
Petrologic aspects of white micas ............................. 384
White miaae in the context of gross lithologic types ....... 384
Margarite occurrence .................................... 385
Normal, rock-forming occurrences ..................... 385
Pseudomorph-forming occurrences ...................... 386
Paragonite occurrence ................................... 386
Muscovite occurrence .................................... 387
White mica composition in the context of gross
lithologic differences .................................. 388
Metamorphic controls on white mica occurrence and
composition ................................................ 388
Theoretical framework for treating the phase relations
of white micas .......................................... 389
Margarite phase relations ............................... 391
Paragonite phase relations .............................. 393
Theoretical models of Pg phase relations ............. 394
Pg phase relations based on natural parageneses ...... 394
Experimental and theoretical approaches to Pg
stability conditions ................................. 395
Miscellaneous aspects of Pg phase relations .......... 396
Muscovite phase relations ............................... 401
Occurrence ........................................... 401
Compositional variation of Mu in response to
metamorphic conditions ............................... 401
Variation of celadonite content ...................... 402
Variation of Na/(Na+K) ratio ......................... 406
Summary; Other compositional variations of Mu in
response to metamorphism ............................. 406
Polymorphs of Mu -- metamorphic aspects ................. 406
White micas as petrogenetic indicators ..................... 408
Use of white mica composition data for petrogenetic
purposes ................................................ 408
Geothermometry using white micas ........................ 409
The Mu-Pg solvus ..................................... 409
The assemblage Mu + plagioclase + Al-silicate ........ 410
The assemblage Mu + plagioclase + K-feldspar +
Al-silicate .......................................... 410
Other geothermometers involving the composition of
Mu ................................................... 411
Geobarometry using white micas .......................... 411
Information on the fluid phase via white micas .......... 412
White micas: identification and determination of
composition ................................................ 413
Optical methods ......................................... 413
X-ray methods ........................................... 414
Electron microprobe analysis of white micas ............. 416
Problems of Fe2+ versus Fe3+ in white micas ............. 417
Staining techniques ..................................... 418
TRIOCTAHEDRAL "DARK MICAS" .................................... 418
Biotite from mineralogic perspective ....................... 419
Observed chemical variation of biotite .................. 419
Compositional variation within the biotite plane ..... 419
Titanium substitution in octahedral sites ............ 423
Fe3+ substitution into octahedral sites .............. 425
Substitution of F and Cl for (OH) in biotite ......... 427
Vacancies in octahedral sites and other
substitutions ........................................ 430
Substitutions in the XII sites ....................... 431
Crystallochemical aspects of biotite compositional
variation ............................................... 431
Compositional variation within the biotite plane ..... 433
Compositional variation deviating from the biotite
plane ................................................ 434
Experimental data ................................. 434
Substitution of Ti ................................ 435
Substitution of F for (OH) and its relation to
Mg/(Mg+FeT) ....................................... 436
Aliv in excess of that required for the
Tschermak exchange ................................ 437
Substitution of Fe3+; Substitutions in the XII
site .............................................. 437
Petrologic aspects of biotite .............................. 437
Biotite occurrence and composition in the context of
gross lithology ......................................... 438
Biotite in pelitic schists; metagreywacke and
impure quartzites; calc-silicates in marbles;
metabasites; metamorphosed granitic rocks ............ 438
Miscellaneous ........................................ 439
Metamorphia controls on the occurrence and composition
of biotite .............................................. 439
Biotite in marbles and calc-silicates ............... 439
Biotite in metabasites ............................... 442
Biotite in pelitic schists .......................... 443
Petrogenetic aspects of biotite ......................... 447
Isogradic reactions; Continuous variation of
biotite composition in response to continuous
reactions; Relationships with volatile
constituents ......................................... 448
Exchange-reactions and geothermometry ................ 450
Biotite identification and determination of composition .... 452
Optical methods; Chemical analyses of biotite ........... 452
SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH ............................... 453
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 455
REFERENCES .................................................... 456
11 F-OH and Cl-OH EXCHANGE in MICAS with
APPLICATIONS to HYDROTHERMAL ORE DEPOSITS
J.L. Munoz
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 469
THERMODYNAMICS OF HALOGEN=HYDROXYL EXCHANGE ................... 469
SYSTEMATICS OF F=OH EXCHANGE .................................. 470
Effect on physical properties .............................. 470
Fe-F avoidance ............................................. 472
Stability relations ..................................... 472
F-OH exchange experiments ............................... 473
Thermodynamic models; Crystal field theory; Cation
ordering ................................................ 474
Thermodynamics of (0H, F) biotite solutions ................ 475
Fluorine intercept value and fluorine index ............... 477
Uncertainties relating to anion occupancy .................. 477
SYSTEMATICS OF Cl=OH EXCHANGE ................................. 479
Mg-Cl avoidance ............................................ 479
Chlorine intercept value; F/Cl intercept value ............. 480
HALOGEN COMPOSITIONS OF HYDROTHERMAL MICAS RELATED TO ORE
DEPOSITS ...................................................... 481
Fluorine ................................................... 483
Chlorine; Fluorine/chlorine ratio .......................... 485
INTERPRETATION OF HALOGEN INTERCEPT DATA IN TERMS OF FLUID
COMPOSITIONS .................................................. 486
CONCLUSIONS ................................................... 490
REFERENCES .................................................... 491
12 ILLITE
Jan Środoń & Dennis D. Eberl
INTRODUCTION .................................................. 495
X-RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS .................................... 496
XRD identification of illitic materials by basal
reflections ................................................... 496
Characterization of "standard illites" by basal
reflections ................................................ 500
Illite crystallinity index ................................. 502
Interparticle diffraction .................................. 503
Polytypes .................................................. 506
Quantitative analysis of illitic materials in
multicomponent systems ..................................... 510
Analysis of oriented preparations ....................... 510
Analysis of random preparations ......................... 512
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION .......................................... 512
Composition of illite in relation to other 2:1
phyllosilicates ............................................ 512
Chemistry of illite and illite layers ...................... 515
ILLITE IN NATURAL, SYNTHETIC, AND THEORETICAL SYSTEMS ......... 518
Weathering environment ..................................... 518
Opening of illite layers ................................ 518
Neoformation of illite in weathering profiles ........... 518
Illitization of smectite by wetting and drying .......... 520
Sedimentary environment .................................... 521
Formation of illite in sea water ........................ 521
Formation of illite in lakes ........................... 523
Diagenetic/metamorphic environment ......................... 524
Illitization of smectite ................................ 524
Illitization of haolinite ............................... 527
Illitization of feldspar ................................ 529
Illitization of muscovite ............................... 529
Neoformation of illite in sandstone pores (Hairy
illite) ................................................. 529
Hydrothermal environment ................................... 532
Synthesis .................................................. 532
Stability diagrams ......................................... 536
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................... 538
REFERENCES .................................................... 539
13 GLAUCONITE and CELADONITE MINERALS
I. Edgar Odom
NOMENCLATURE .................................................. 545
LITERATURE .................................................... 547
GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCES OF GLAUCONITES AND CELADONITES ........... 547
MORPHOLOGICAL FORMS OF GLAUCONITES AND CELADONITES ............ 549
UNIT STRUCTURES OF GLAUCONITES AND CELADONITES ................ 551
Structural characteristics ................................. 551
Mineralogy of glauconites .................................. 552
Mineralogy of celadonites .................................. 557
CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS ...................................... 557
Glauconites ................................................ 557
Celadonites ................................................ 561
MISCELLANEOUS PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF
GLAUCONITES AND CELADONITES ................................... 564
ORIGIN OF GLAUCONITE MINERALS ................................. 566
Layer lattice theory ....................................... 567
Neoformation theory ........................................ 568
ORIGIN OF CELADONITE MINERALS ................................. 570
FUTURE RESEARCH ............................................... 570
REFERENCES .................................................... 571
APPENDIX X-RAY POWDER PATTERNS of MICAS
REFERENCES .................................................... 573
DIOCTAHEDRAL TRUE MICAS ....................................... 574
TRIOCTAHEDRAL TRUE MICAS ...................................... 577
BRITTLE MICAS ................................................. 583
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