Crystal structure analyses of four tourmaline specimens from the Cleopatra's Mines (Egypt) and Jabal Zalm (Saudi Arabia), and the role of Al in the tourmaline group

American Mineralogist

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 510-518

  Bosi, Ferdinando ^a   Balić Žunić, Tonci ^b   Surour, Adel A ^c,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Chemical analysis; Crystal structure; M ssbauer spectroscopy; Order disorder; Tourmaline; XRD data

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; KAOLINITE; MAGNESIUM; MOLYBDENUM METALLOGRAPHY; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CRITICAL CONSTRAINTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE REFINEMENT; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; SINGLE CRYSTAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION; SSBAUER SPECTROSCOPIES; SUBSTITUTION MECHANISMS; TOURMALINE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DRAVITE; LIZARDITE; MELANGE; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPHIOLITE; PROTEROZOIC; SUBSTITUTION; TOURMALINE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EGYPT; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 77950875074     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2010.3357     Document Type: Article

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