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Vaterite from Ballycraigy, Larne, Northern Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

J. D. C. McConnell
J. D. C. McConnell*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology, Downing Place, Cambridge
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Summary

Vaterite, the third unstable polymorph of CaCO3, is recognized by optical and X-ray powder techniques as a major constituent in a carbonated calcium silicate hydrogel complex formed from larnite at Ballycraigy, Lame, Northern Ireland. Re-indexed X-ray powder data obtained on synthetic vaterite are provided indicating a hexagonal unit cell with dimensions a = 7·135 Å. and c = 8·524 Å., Z = 6CaCO3. The re-indexing is endorsed by the results of electron diffraction study of synthetic vaterite. Vaterite is shown to correspond to the hypothetical CaCO3 member of the bastnäsite-synchisite mineral series on the basis of extrapolated cell dimensions and optical properties. A structural scheme for vaterite is proposed in which Ca layers replace the CeF layers in bastnäsite, and near-vertical CO3 groups are present. The stability relations of natural vaterite are discussed and comment made on the recent observation of vaterite, in a like environment, in carbonated cements and mortars.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 250 , September 1960 , pp. 535 - 544
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1960

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