The structure of spurrite, tilleyite and scawtite, and relationships to other silicate-carbonate minerals

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1489-1500

  Grice, Joel D ^a  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apuseni Mountains; Classification of structures; Crystal structure; Ireland; Romania; Scawt Hill; Silicate carbonate

Indexed keywords

IRELAND; ROMANIA; SILICATE-CARBONATE MINERALS;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE IONS; POLYMERIZATION; POSITIVE IONS; SILICATE MINERALS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MINERALOGY;

CARBONATE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; SCAWTITE; SPURRITE; TILLEYITE;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 32944475782     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.43.5.1489     Document Type: Article

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