Corrensite and mixed-layer chlorite/corrensite in metabasalt from northern Taiwan: TEM/AEM, EMPA, XRD, and optical studies
Essene, Eric J.; Shau, Yen-Hong; Peacor, Donald R.
1990-03
Citation
Shau, Yen-Hong; Peacor, Donald R.; Essene, Eric J.; (1990). "Corrensite and mixed-layer chlorite/corrensite in metabasalt from northern Taiwan: TEM/AEM, EMPA, XRD, and optical studies." Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 105(2): 123-142. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/47292>
Abstract
Many chloritic minerals in low-grade metamorphic or hydrothermally altered mafic rocks exhibit abnormal optical properties, expand slightly upon glycolation (“expandable chlorite”) and/or have excess Al VI relative to Al IV , as well as significant Ca, K and Na contents. Chloritic minerals with these properties fill vesicles and interstitial void space in low-grade metabasalt from northern Taiwan and have been studied with a combination of TEM/AEM, EMPA, XRD, and optical microscopy. The chloritic minerals include corrensite, which is an ordered 1:1 mixed-layer chlorite/smectite, and “expandable chlorite”, which is shown to be a mixed-layer chlorite/corrensite. Corrensite and some mixed-layer chlorite/corrensite occur as rims of vesicles and other cavities, while later-formed mixed-layer chlorite/corrensite occupies the vesicle cores. The TEM observations show that the mixed-layer chlorite/corrensite has ca. 20%, and the corrensite has ca. 50% expandable smectite-like layers, consistent with XRD observations and with their abnormal optical properties. The AEM analyses show that high Si and Ca contents, high Al VI /Al IV and low Fe VI /(Fe+Mg) VI ratios of “chlorites” are correlated with interstratification of corrensite (or smectite-like) layers in chlorite. The AEM analyses obtained from 200–500 Å thick packets of nearly pure corrensite or chlorite layers always show that corrensite has low Al IV /Si IV and low Fe VI /(Fe+Mg) VI , while chlorite has high Al IV /Si IV and high Fe VI /(Fe+Mg) VI . This implies that the trioctahedral smectite-like component of corrensite has significantly lower Al IV /Si IV and Fe VI /(Fe+Mg) VI . The ratios of Fe VI /(Fe+Mg) VI and Al IV /Si IV thus decrease in the order chlorite, corrensite, smectite. The proportions of corrensite (or smectite-like) layers relative to chlorite layers in low-grade rocks are inferred to be controlled principally by Fe/Mg ratio in the fluid or the bulk rock and by temperature. Compositional variations of “chlorites” in low-grade rocks, which appear to correlate with temperature or metamorphic grade, more likely reflect variable proportions of mixed-layered components. The assemblages of trioctahedral phyllosilicates tend to occur as intergrown discrete phases, such as chlorite-corrensite, corrensite-smectite, or chlorite-corrensite-smectite. A model for the corrensite crystal structure suggests that corrensite should be treated as a unique phase rather than as a 1:1 ordered mixed-layer chlorite/smectite.Publisher
Springer-Verlag
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1432-0967 0010-7999
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