Compositional variability of pigments of Belén-style prehispanic ceramics from El Bolsón Valley, Catamarca Province, Argentina

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 553-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Puente ◽  
P. Mariela Desimone ◽  
Juan Pablo Tomba ◽  
José M. Porto López
Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Tutolo ◽  
Bernard Evans ◽  
Scott Kuehner

We present microanalyses of secondary phyllosilicates in altered ferroan metaperidotite, containing approximately equal amounts of end-members serpentine ((Mg,Fe2+)3Si2O5(OH)4) and hisingerite (□Fe3+2Si2O5(OH)4·nH2O). These analyses suggest that all intermediate compositions can exist stably, a proposal that was heretofore impossible because phyllosilicate with the compositions reported here have not been previously observed. In samples from the Duluth Complex (Minnesota, USA) containing igneous olivine Fa36–44, a continuous range in phyllosilicate compositions is associated with hydrothermal Mg extraction from the system and consequent relative enrichments in Fe2+, Fe3+ (hisingerite), Si, and Mn. Altered ferroan–olivine-bearing samples from the Laramie Complex (Wyoming, USA) show a compositional variability of secondary FeMg–phyllosilicate (e.g., Mg–hisingerite) that is discontinuous and likely the result of differing igneous olivine compositions and local equilibration during alteration. Together, these examples demonstrate that the products of serpentinization of ferroan peridotite include phyllosilicate with iron contents proportionally larger than the reactant olivine, in contrast to the common observation of Mg-enriched serpentine in “traditional” alpine and seafloor serpentinites. To augment and contextualize our analyses, we additionally compiled greenalite and hisingerite analyses from the literature. These data show that greenalite in metamorphosed banded iron formation contains progressively more octahedral-site vacancies (larger apfu of Si) in higher XFe samples, a consequence of both increased hisingerite substitution and structure modulation (sheet inversions). Some high-Si greenalite remains ferroan and seems to be a structural analogue of the highly modulated sheet silicate caryopilite. Using a thermodynamic model of hydrothermal alteration in the Fe–silicate system, we show that the formation of secondary hydrothermal olivine and serpentine–hisingerite solid solutions after primary olivine may be attributed to appropriate values of thermodynamic parameters such as elevated a S i O 2 ( a q ) and decreased a H 2 ( a q ) at low temperatures (~200 °C). Importantly, recent observations of Martian rocks have indicated that they are evolved magmatically like the ferroan peridotites analyzed here, which, in turn, suggests that the processes and phyllosilicate assemblages recorded here are more directly relevant to those occurring on Mars than are traditional terrestrial serpentinites.


Author(s):  
Xufei Teng ◽  
Qianpeng Li ◽  
Zhao Li ◽  
Yuansheng Zhang ◽  
Guangyi Niu ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 1185-1193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Y. Barkov ◽  
Yana Fedortchouk ◽  
Robert A. Campbell ◽  
Tapio A.A. Halkoaho

AbstractMicrocrystals of platinum-group element (PGE)-bearing cobaltite occur in the Gulcari A deposit of vanadiferous titanomagnetite in the lower zone of the Rio Jacaré mafic-ultramafic layered intrusion, Brazil. Aggregates of cobaltite and sperrylite are cluster-like and developed generally along the boundary of Fe-Ti oxide grains with deuteric silicates. Our observations of cryptic zoning, compositional variability and interelement correlations are based on 37 analytical points (wavelength-dispersion spectrometry mode) of cobaltite, and indicate that Ir and Rh behave uniformly with Ni and antipathetically with Co which, in turn, correlates directly with S content. Iridium, Rh and Ni apparently substitute for Co in the As-enriched grain core, and the substitution mechanism invokes solid solution with a cattierite-type molecule: (Ni + Ir + Rh) + (AsS) = Co + (S2). The PGE-bearing cobaltite probably crystallized as a primary phase at 500 to 300°C, from microvolumes of a late fluid phase. The observed enrichment in S and decrease in the As:S ratio at the cobaltite grain margins is a reflection of the increase in sulfur fugacity (fS2) with decrease in temperature of crystallization.


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 5550-5555 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.L. Huber ◽  
E.W. Lemmon ◽  
T.J. Bruno

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