Hydroxylellestadite from Cioclovina Cave (Romania): Microanalytical, structural, and vibrational spectroscopy data

American Mineralogist

Volumn 91, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1927-1931

  Onac, Bogdan P ^a,b   Effenberger, Herta ^c   Ettinger, Karl ^d   Panzaru, Simona Cinta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bat guano combustion; Britholite group; Cave minerals; Cioclovina Cave; Hydroxylellestadite; Romania

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; IN SITU COMBUSTION; MANURES; MINERALS; SILICATES; SILICON; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BRITHOLITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE MINERALS; HYDROXYLELLESTADITE; MICRO-RAMAN SPECTRA; ROMANIA; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY STRUCTURES; SPACE-GROUP SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY REDUCTION;

CAVES;

CAVE DEPOSIT; COMBUSTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINITY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GUANO; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL ALTERATION;

CIOCLOVINA CAVE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNEDOARA; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845345635     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.2143     Document Type: Article

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