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Dawsonite: An inclusion mineral in quartz from the Tin Mountain pegmatite, Black Hills, South Dakota

  • Mona-Liza C. Sirbescu EMAIL logo and Peter I. Nabelek
Published/Copyright: March 31, 2015
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 88 Issue 7

Abstract

Dawsonite - NaAl(CO3)(OH)2- was identified in primary fluid inclusions in quartz from the Li-rich Tin Mountain pegmatite, Black Hills, South Dakota, by petrography, SEM-EDS analysis, and Raman spectroscopy. This is the first report of dawsonite as an inclusion mineral in a pegmatite. The presence of dawsonite in the inclusions is evidence for the existence of carbonate ions in the complex pegmatite melt and/or exsolved magmatic fluid. The lack of dawsonite as a macroscopic mineral is attributed to its high solubility in the late pegmatite fluids and to the small fraction of carbonate ions in the melt. However, its common occurrence, along with other carbonate and borate minerals in fluid inclusions, suggests that carbonate and borate complexes play an important role in petrogenesis of pegmatites.

Received: 2002-7-3
Accepted: 2003-2-22
Published Online: 2015-3-31
Published in Print: 2003-7-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2003-0714

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  2. BNa–BLi solid-solution in A-site-vacant amphiboles: synthesis and cation ordering along the ferri-clinoferroholmquistite–riebeckite join
  3. A new uranyl carbonate sheet in the crystal structure of fontanite, Ca[(UO2)3(CO3)2O2](H2O)6
  4. XANES calibrations for the oxidation state of iron in a silicate glass
  5. Dissolution of strontianite at high P-T conditions: An in-situ synchrotron X-ray fluorescence study
  6. Intergrown niobian rutile phases with Sc- and W-rich ferrocolumbite: An electron-microprobe and Rietveld study
  7. Bulk moduli and high-pressure crystal structures of minium, Pb3O4, determined by X-ray powder diffraction
  8. Slow oxygen diffusion rates in igneous zircons from metamorphic rocks
  9. Chemistry of grain boundaries in mantle rocks
  10. Heats of mixing of silicate liquid in the systems diopside-anorthite-akermanite, diopside-anorthite-forsterite, and diopside-silica
  11. High-pressure crystal structure of kosmochlor, NaCrSi2O6, and systematics of anisotropic compression in pyroxenes
  12. Monte Carlo simulations of ordering of Al, Fe, and Mg cations in the octahedral sheet of smectites and illites
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  15. Hydrogen-bonded water in laumontite II: Experimental determination of site-specific thermodynamic properties of hydration of the W1 and W5 sites
  16. High P-T phase relations and stability of a (21)-hydrous clinopyribole in the system K2ONa2O- CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O: An experimental study to 18 GPa
  17. The crystal chemistry of julgoldite-Fe3+ from Bombay, India, studied using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy
  18. Partitioning of Sr, Ba, Rb, Y, and LREE between plagioclase and peraluminous silicic magma
  19. Infrared and TEM characterization of amphiboles synthesized near the tremolite-pargasite join in the ternary system tremolite-pargasite-cummingtonite
  20. Coupling between non-convergent ordering and transition temperature in the C2/c ↔ P21/c phase transition in pigeonite
  21. 57Fe Mössbauer-effect studies of Ca-rich, Fe-bearing clinopyroxenes: Part I. Paramagnetic spectra of magnesian hedenbergite
  22. 57Fe Mössbauer-effect studies of Ca-rich, Fe-bearing clinopyroxenes: Part II. Magnetic spectra of magnesian hedenbergite
  23. 57Fe Mössbauer-effect studies of Ca-rich, Fe-bearing clinopyroxenes: Part III. Diopside
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  25. Studtite, [(UO2)(O2)(H2O)2](H2O)2: The first structure of a peroxide mineral
  26. Nanometer-scale measurements of iron oxidation states of cronstedtite from primitive meteorites
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