Refinement of an amesite-2H1 polytype from Postmasburg, South Africa

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-310

  Zheng, Hong ^a,b   Bailey, Sturges W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortions; Ordering Patterns; Postmasburg; Refinement; South Africa; Twinning

Indexed keywords

SIGANUS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; TWINNING;

AMESITE; CATION ORDERING PATTERNS; CRYSTAL REFINEMENT;

CLAY MINERALS;

AMESITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ORDERING; TWINNING;

EID: 3042894639     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.1997.0450301     Document Type: Article

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