Zeolite occurrences and the erionite-mesothelioma relationship in Cappadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 539-547

  Temel, A ^a   Gundogdu M N ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERIONITE; MESOTHELIOMA; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; ZEOLITE;

TURKEY, ANATOLIA, CAPPADOCIA;

EID: 0030302308     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00196134     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Ataman, G. (1978) Les tufs zeolitises de Cappudoce et leur liaison probable avec certain types de cancer du poumon et de Mesothelioma pleural. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 287. série D:207-210
2. Ataman, G. (1980) mise en evidence du role d'erionite (zeolite) dans le Mesothelioma pulmonaire. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 291, série D: 167-169
3. Ataman, G., Gündogdu, M.N. (1984) Fibrous zeolites (erionite) and cancer of the lung in the village of Sarihidir. In: Muir, C.S., Wagner, G. (eds). IARC Scientific Publications 62, Lyon. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 268
4. Baris, E. and Baris, Y.I. (1993) Environmental exposure to fibrous zeolite in Turkey: an appraisal of the epidemiological and environmental evidence, vol. 8 of the Sourcebook on Asbestos diseases. In: Peters, O.A., Peters, B.J. (eds.). Asbestos risks and medical advances. Butterworth, USA, pp. 53-71
5. Baris, Y.I., Sahin, A.A., Özesmi, M., Kerse, L. Özen, H., Kolaçan, B., Altinörs, M., Göktepeli, A. (1978) An outbreak of pleural mesothelioma and chronic fibrosing in the village of Karain Ürgüp in Anatolia. Thorax 330:423-432
6. Baris, I., Simonata, L., Artvinli, M., Pooley, K., Saracci, R., Skidmore, J. and Wagner, C. (1987) Epidemiological and environmental evidence of the health effects of exposure to erionite libres: a four-year study in the Cappadocian region of Turkey. Int. J. Cancer 39:10-17
7. Bish, D.L., Chipera, S.J. (1991) Detection of trace amounts of erionite using X-ray powder diffraction: erionite in tuffs of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and Central Turkey. Clay Clay Mineral. 29:437-445
8. Bish, D.L., Guthrie, G.D. (1993) Mineralogy of clay and zeolite dusts (exclusive of 1:1 layer silicate). In: Guthrie, G.D. Mossman, B.T. (eds.), Health effect of mineral dusts. Rev. Mineralogy 28:139-184
9. Broxton, D.E., Bish, D.L., Warren, R.G. (1987) Distribution and chemistry of diagenetc minerals at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. Clays Clay Miner. 35:89-110
10. Coffin D.L., Peters, S.E., Palekar, L.D., Cook, P.M., Creason, J.P. (1989) A study on the biological activity of erionite in relation to its chemical and structural characteristics: In: Wehner, A.P. (ed.), Proc. Biological Interaction of Inhaled Mineral Fibres and Cigarette Smoke, Battelle Press, Columbus, Ohio, pp. 347-354
11. Garrels, R.M., Christ, C.L. (1965) Solutions, minerals and equilibria. Harper and Row, New York, 435p
12. Gundogdu, M.N. (1982) Geological, mineralogical and geochemical investigation of the Bigadiç Neogene volcano-sedimentary basin (Neojen yasli Bigadi sedimanter baseninin jeolojik, mineralojik ve jeokimyasal incelenmesi). PhD Thesis, Hacettepe University (unpublished)
13. Gündogdu, M.N., Yalçin, H., Temel, A., Clauer, N. (1996) Geological, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of zeolite deposits associated with borates in Bigadiç. Emet and Kirka Neogene lacustrine basins (Western Turkey), (this issue)
14. Hay, R.L. (1978) Geological occurrence of zeolites. In: L.B. Sand, F.A. Mumpton (eds.) Natural zeolites: occurrences, properties and uses. Pergamon Press, New York, pp. 135-145
15. Le Pennec, J.-L., Bourdier, J.-L., Froger, J.-L., Temel, A., Camus, G. and Gourgaud, A. (1994a) Neogene ignimbrites of the Nevsehir plateau (central Turkey). Stratigraphy, distribution and source constraints. JVGR 63:59-87
16. Le Pennec, J.-L., Temel, A., Druitt, T., Froger, J.L., Aydar, E., Bourdier, J.-L., Camus, G., Gündogdu, M.N. (1994b) The Neogene to Quarternary ignimbritic fieid of Cappadocia. IAV-CEI-94 Spec. Pub. 3, 29p
17. Maltoni, C., Minardi, F., Morisi, L. (1982) Pleural mesotheliomas in Sprague Dawley rats by erionite: first experimental evidence. Environ. Res. 29:238-244
18. Mumpton, F.A. (1979) A reconnaissance study of the association of zeolites with mesothelioma occurrences in Central Turkey. US Geol. Surv. Open-File Rep. 79-954, 55p
19. Özesmi, M., Patiroglu, T.E., Hillerdal, G., Özesmi, C. (1985) Peritoneal mesothelioma and malignant lymphoma in mice caused by fibrous zeolite. Brit. J. Ind. Med. 42:746-749
20. Poole, A., Brown, R.C., Turver, C.J., Skidmore, J.W., Griffiths, D.M. (1983) In vitro genotoxic activities of fibrous erionite. Brit. J. Cancer 47:746-749
21. Sebestian, P., Gaudichet A. Bignon, J., Baris, Y.I. (1984) Zeolite bodies in human lungs from Turkey. Lab. Invest. 44:420-425
22. Sheppard, R.A. (1991) Zeolitic diagenesis of tuffs in the Miocene Chalk Hills formation, Western Snake River Plain, Idaho. US Geol. Surv. Bull. 1963, 27p
23. Surdam, R.C., and Sheppard, R.A. (1978) Zeolites in saline, alkaline-lake deposits. In: Sand, L.B., Mumpton, F.A., (eds.) Natural zeolite occurrence, properties, use: Elmsford, N.Y., Pergamon Press, New York, pp. 145-174
24. Suzuki, Y. (1982) Carcinogenic and fibrogenic effects of zeolites. Preliminary observations. Environ. Res. 27:433-445
25. Temel, A. (1992) Petrological and geochemical characteristics of Cappadocian explosive volcanism (Kapadokya eksplozif volkanizmasinin petrolojik ve jeokimyasal özellikleri). PhD Thesis, Hacettepe University, (unpublished)
26. Temel, A., Gündogdu, M.N., Gourgaud, A. and Le Pennec, J.-L. (1994) Ignimbrites of Cappadocia: petrology and aeochemislry. Abstracts of IAVCEI-94, Ankara
27. Wagner, J.C., Skidmore, J.W., Hill, R.J., Griffiths, D.M. (1985) Erionite exposure and mesotheliomas in rats. Brit. J. Cancer 51:727-730