Symmetry and crystal structure of biaxial elbaite-liddicoatite tourmaline from the Transbaikalia region, Russia

American Mineralogist

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 675-686

  Shtukenberg, Alexander ^a   Rozhdestvenskaya, Ira ^a   Frank Kamenetskaya, Olga ^a   Bronzova, Julia ^a   Euler, Harald ^b   Kirfel, Armin ^b   Bannova, Irina ^a   Zolotarev, Anatoly ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissymmetrization; Elbaite; Growth ordering of atoms; Liddicoatite; Optical anomalies; Tourmaline crystal structure

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; SILICATE MINERALS; ZONING;

DISSYMMETRIZATION; ELBAITE; GROWTH ORDERING; LIDDICOATITE; OPTICAL ANOMALIES;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ORIENTATION; SYMMETRY; TOURMALINE; ZONING;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TRANSBAIKALIA;

EID: 34247325080     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2007.2354     Document Type: Article

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