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Saponite from
Apex, Wake County, North Carolina, USA


Classification
Species:Saponite
Formula:Ca0.25(Mg,Fe)3((Si,Al)4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Saponite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Apex, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:901748
Long-form Identifier:1:3:901748:1
GUID (UUID V4):63a572d6-f2c0-4dde-bb60-aa435d0bbda8
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zeolites and prehnite have been found in North Carolina in a wide variety of excava­ tions for power...ZEOLITES IN NORTH CAROLINA D O N A L D R. P R I V E T T One Circle Street Great Falls, South Carolina 29055...low-grade metamorphic rocks. Zeolites occur in North Carolina in a wide variety of igneous and metamorphic...weathered, and geo­ logically complex area of North Carolina extending from the Blue Ridge to the Coastal...from south central Georgia to Virginia. In the North Carolina Piedmont, most zeolites are pres­ ent in a
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Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, CA 91109, USA P.O. Box 344, Lovettsville...VA 20180, USA d Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, 20723, USA e Desert Research...Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Pkwy, Reno, NV 89512, USA f Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SĂŁo... 2. Background 2.1. Geological Setting of the North Pole Dome Region of the Pilbara 2.2. Carbonates...hyperspectral imaging dataset was acquired over the North Pole Dome Region of the East Pilbara GraniteGreenstone
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(1997) 0 Meteoritical Society, 1997. Printed in USA. Phyllosilicates in the matrix of the unique carbonaceous...New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1 126, USA Author's e-mail address: brearley@unm.edu (Received...ratios of saponite may be the result of partial terrestrial oxidation of Fe-rich saponite to a more Mg-rich...Mg-rich saponite and ferrihydrite. Alternatively, some of the ferrihydrite may have formed as a result...linear array with a general trend away from the Fe apex towards the Si-Mg join. This type of behavior is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87 13l- 1126,USA ‘Department of Mineral Sciences, American Museum...Museum of Natural History, New York, 10024-5192, USA (Received July 17, 199 1;accepted in revised form December...of Fe-bearing saponite and sulfides to produce ferrihydrite and more Mg-rich saponite, such as that in...three polymict ureilites (EET 83309, Nilpena, and North Haig) occur as angular clasts which vary in size...polymict ureilites have been recognized: Nilpena, North Haig, and EET 83309 (PRINZ et al., 1986; 1987a)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 1995 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/95 $9.50 + .00 Pe~nmon...alteration and brecciation in Bells, an unusual, saponite-bearing, CM chondrite ADRIANJ. BREARLEY Institute...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA (Received July 26, 1994; accepted in revisedform...chondrites. The dominant phases are fine-grained saponite interlayered with serpentine, and phases such...phase, at least on a localized scale, stabilizing saponite in preference to serpentine. An increase in aSiO2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu,Hawai'i 96822, USA 3Geological and Environmental Sciences, StanfordUniversity...California 94305-2115, USA 4Kingsborough College, Physical Sciences, Brooklyn, New York 11235,USA 5NASA Johnson...Space Center, Mail Code ST, Houston, Texas 77058, USA *Correspondence author's e-mailaddress:ansgar.greshake@rz...serpentine, with basal spacing of ~O. 73 nm, and saponite, with basal spacings of about 1.1-1.2 nm. Chondrules..., 281 © Meteoritical Society, 2002. Printed in USA FIG. J. Combined x-ray elemental maps in Mg (red)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/00 $20.00 â«č .00 Pergamon...chondrules consist mainly of phyllosilicates (saponite and serpentine) and minor but variable amounts...appear to be on the same line pointing toward the Fe apex. Within individual rims, the phyllosilicate-rich...line and most lie on a line pointing toward the Fe apex. Owing to the very small size and intimately intergrown...transmission electron microscopy (TEM), identified saponite in the matrix of Vigarano and found it to be intimately
Report (issue)
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals and rocks in the tri-state...Frasch sulfur production in adjacent Culberson County, west Texas. Halite, gypsum, and barite have also...characteristic as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) develops. The principal north-south route is...Juarez, El Paso, and Las Cruces are located in the north-trending Rio Grande rift. The Basin and Range province...sedimentary rocks host Frasch sulfur mining in Culberson County, Texas (Fig. 2), and the evaporitic facies in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
matrix has a composition intermediate between saponite and serpentine and contains abundant framboidal...the margins, has been extensively replaced by saponite (Fig. 2b and c; Table 1), whereas mesostasis and...various diameters (0.1–15 lm)) (Fig. 2d and e) and saponite (Figs. 2f and 3d). However, most of the magnetite...chondrules does not show such framboidal texture. The saponite replacing the opaque nodules is slightly richer...were) replaced by ïŹne-grained magnetite (Mag) and saponite (Sap), which were disaggregated and mixed into
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, USA Received 16 September 2008; accepted in revised form...the walls of the etch pits, pointing toward the apex of each conical pit (Fig. 2). Note also the absence...Barracks (Oahu) basalt; (c) Day Book metadunite, North Carolina; (d) slightly weathered corestone interior...striations on conical surfaces pointing toward the apex of each cone. Note also the absence of weathering...etching patterns result from both side-by-side and apex-to-apex coalescence of etch pits (Fig. 11a) and prolonged
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clay Minerals, Vol. 58, No. 5, 606–626, 2010. SAPONITE-RICH BLACK SHALES AND NONTRONITE BEDS OF THE PERMIAN...intruded diabase sills. Black shales consist of saponite or saponite-talc mixed layers, talc, lizardite, nontronite...results from weathering processes. The presence of saponite, nontronite, and some accessory minerals (spinel...less than the Post-Archean Average Shale (PAAS) or North American Shale Composite (NASC) levels and with...claystones contain saponite, talc, and lizardite but nontronite is absent. Saponite and talc crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the composition of corrensite compared with saponite, venniculite, and chlorite suggest that corrensite...variability between corrensite, chlorite, and saponite, corrensite appears chemically to be a well-defined...for a regular interstratification of chiorite/saponite only and assigning two new, distinct names to...AI-C/M) were compared to saponite and vermiculite (the chemical formulae of saponite and vermiculite were...dioctahedral; the CN materials plot towards the F.I apex; the C/Sap materials are scattered and not Table
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1996) © Meteoritical Society, 1996. Printed in USA. Aqueous alteration in the matrix of the Vigarano...Mokoia) contain phyllosilicates, predominantly saponite (Keller and Buseck, 1990a; Tomeoka and Buseck...Orgueil smectite (saponite, from Tomeoka and Buseck, 1988, Table 2) and the Fe apex (Fig. 6). Also plotted...Vigarano can thus be identified as a mixture of saponite and ferrihydrite. Larger smectite crystals, :::;5...positively identified but is again likely to be saponite. The channels are oriented with their long axes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 81731, USA Received 26 January 2005; accepted in revised form...samples has altered to form interlayered serpentine/saponite and Fe-oxyhydroxides. The degree of alteration...increasing duration of heating. The serpentine/saponite forms both by direct replacement of the olivine...is much lower. CI chondrites contain serpentine/saponite intergrowths and veins of Ca-sulfate and Ca-carbonate...Laboratory, C-INC, MS J514, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. 0016-7037/$ - see front matter  2005 Elsevier Inc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kaolinite, ferrihydrite, vermiculite, Fe2+–Mg2+saponite, and poorly crystalline serpentine. The alkaline...sedimentary and basaltic rocks fall between the carbon apex and the line indicated by a C/Mg molar ratio of...that the Ceno stream waters, shifted toward the C apex of Fig. 2, derive their chemistry from the interaction...the Taro–Ceno Valleys show a trend towards the Cl apex, whereas in Fig. 3 the estimated soluble chlorine...Mg 3+ Montmorillonite-Fe –Mg Saponite-Fe2+ Saponite-Fe2+–Mg Saponite-Fe3+–Mg 2+ Vermiculite-Fe –Mg
Book
History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM specimen...00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R.B. Finkelman...1980, 00532 Christmas Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA F.P. Cesbron & S.A. Williams (1980) Min. Mag. 43...1957, 00357 Tintic Standard mine, Dividend, Utah, USA W.T. Schaller (1923) J. Washington Acad. Sci. 13
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
muscovite; Prl: pyrophyllite; Qtz: quartz; Sap: saponite; Serp: serpentine; Sm: smectite; Sm/Chl: mixed-layer...swelling behavior both suggest that beidellite and saponite crystallized in #1 and #2. The position of the...prevalence of Mg in its octahedral sheets (Mg-saponite). The resulting low availability of Mg, and the...of the newly formed minerals. Saturation of the saponite interlayers with Sr was used to assess this hypothesis...(Mg-beidellite) crystallizing at 180225ÂșC. Only saponite compositions, not those of beidellite, were observed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Fe-bearing, Mg-rich serpentine and smectite (saponite) as well as a poorly crystallized Fe-rich material...probably adsorbed on its surfaces. The serpentine and saponite occur in poorly crystallized, fine crystaltites...Febearing serpentine, saponite, and S- and Ni-bearing ferrihydrite. Serpentine and saponite are common in coherent...and ferrihydrite-rich regions, respectively. (I)Saponite and vermiculite have similar characteristics,...grounds, we conclude that the lo- to 15-A layers are saponite. w In smectite, substitutions in tetrahedral and
Report (issue)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northern Farmington Mountains, a division of the north-central Wasatch Mountains, Utah, are characterized...mountains are essentially a composite series of north-northwest trending fault blocks bounded by normal...metacrysts of the Cathedral Peak granite is presented. SAPONITE NEAR MILFORD, UTAH Harold P. Cahoon Ceramic Department...City, Utah A small deposit of a high-magnesium saponite has been found near Milford, Utah. It appears...this mineral as saponite. Electronmicroscope pictures will be shown which show that saponite is a sheetlike
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Houston, TX 77058, USA 2Lockheed/LESCO, 2400 NASA Road l, Houston, TX 77058, USA 3Lunar and Planetary...Planetary Institute, Houston, TX 77058, USA (Received November 14, 1991; accepted in revised form January 20...Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA 3123 3124 M. Zolensky, R. Barrett, and L. Browning...which are dominantly serpentine group minerals, saponite, tochilinite, tochilinite-serpentine intergrowths...FERRIHYDRITE MAGHEMITE MICAS 4"5 SAPONITE 4 SERPENTINE 4 SAPONITE4 SAPONITE SAPONITE3 SERPENTINE 3 SERPENTINE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1996) © Meteoritical Society, 1996. Printed in USA. eM-like interplanetary dust particles in lower...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA (Received 1995 May 9; accepted in revised form 1995...altitude in the lower stratosphere over west-central North America using large area, inertial-impact, flat-plate...by 0.7 nm fringes. Smectite is probably Fe-rich saponite. 280 F. J. M. Rietmeijer FIG. 3. Transmission...composition of these patches, they are probably Fe-rich saponite. The patches also contain rare subhedral iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ST, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA Photon Factory Institute of Material Science, High...porous matrix that consists mainly of fine-grained saponite and ferromagenesian carbonate. The matrix contains...magnetite and a coherent intergrowth of serpentine and saponite that is rare in matrix. The presence of texturally...minerals in the matrix are the hydrous silicates saponite and serpentine [2]. Oxygen isotopic data are distinct...compositions are plotted between serpentine and saponite lines, suggesting that it is a mixture of these
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the KarikĂĄs-tetƑ area of PrĂĄga Hill, VeszprĂ©m County, Balaton Highland, Transdanubia, West Hungary....coordinates: 46°56â€ČN, 17°15â€ČE), near Bazsi, VeszprĂ©m County, Balaton Highland, Transdanubia, West Hungary....fractures are lined with pale green to pale brown saponite about 1–2 mm thick (KovĂĄcs-PĂĄlffy et al. 2007;...minerals closely associated with chabazite-Mg are saponite, aragonite, and phillipsite. Chabazite-Mg was... Microphotograph of colorless chabazite-Mg on saponite crust. Size of the crystals: 1–2 mm. by hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
province is situated in the Tanzanian craton to the north o f Winam Gulf (Fig. 1). The Tanzanian craton in...smectite in Y1B1 kimberlite and saponite in YA17 and Y1B3 kimberlites. Saponite in Y1B3 kimberlite is brownish...near the MgO apex, whereas those from the shallow part are slightly apart from the MgO apex, and YA17 kimberlites...kimberlites are further apart from this apex. This variation in the chemical composition is due to the...YA17 kimberlite smectite (saponite), natrolite and/or thomsonite. Saponite in YA17 kimberlite is considered
 
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