Ramanite-(Cs) and ramanite-(Rb): New cesium and rubidium pentaborate tetrahydrate minerals identified with raman spectroscopy

American Mineralogist

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1034-1042

  Thomas, Rainer ^a   Davidson, Paul ^b   Hahn, Andreas ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

And cesium; Fluid and melt inclusions; New Cs and Rb minerals; Raman spectroscopy; Ramanite (Cs); Ramanite (Rb); Rubidium; Strong enrichment of boron

Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID; BORON; BORON DEPOSITS; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; GRANITE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RUBIDIUM; SILICATES;

AQUEOUS FLUIDS; DAUGHTER MINERAL; FLUID INCLUSION; HYPER-SALINE FLUIDS; MELT INCLUSIONS; RAMANITE-(CS); RAMANITE-(RB); SILICATE MELTS;

RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS;

BORON; CESIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENRICHMENT; FLUID INCLUSION; FORMATION MECHANISM; MELT INCLUSION; NEW MINERAL; NOMENCLATURE; PEGMATITE; QUARTZ; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RAMANITE; RUBIDIUM;

ELBA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO; TUSCANY;

EID: 49549090841     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2008.2727     Document Type: Article

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