Tetrahedrally coordinated boron in tourmalines from the liddicoatite-elbaite series from Madagascar: Structure, chemistry, and infrared spectroscopic studies

American Mineralogist

Volumn 91, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1847-1856

  Ertl, Andreas ^a   Hughes, John M ^b   Prowatke, Stefan ^c   Ludwig, Thomas ^c   Prasad, Pinnelli S R ^d   Brandstätter, Franz ^e   Körner, Wilfried ^a   Schuster, Ralf ^f   Pertlik, Franz ^a   Marschall, Horst ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^f ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Liddicoatite elbaite; Madagascar; Structure; Tetrahedrally coordinated boron

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ALUMINUM METALLOGRAPHY; BINARY ALLOYS; BORON; CHEMISTRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM METALLOGRAPHY; RARE EARTHS; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); VANADIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE DETERMINATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; LIDDICOATITE; MADAGASCAR; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

BORON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUID INCLUSION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOURMALINE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 33845313344     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.2245     Document Type: Article

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