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Vermicular Kaolinite Epitactic on Primary Phyllosilicates in the Weathering Profiles of Anorthosite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Gi Young Jeong
Gi Young Jeong*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Andong National University, Andong 760-749, Korea
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Abstract

The microtextural changes in the kaolinization of primary phyllosilicates including biotite, sericite, clinochlore and muscovite were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and microchemical analysis of thin sections of weathered anorthosite. Kaolinization began at grain edges and propagated toward the interior. Grains were highly fanned out from the edges and exfoliated into several flakes along the basal cleavages, producing lenticular voids. Finally, long vermicular kaolinite pseudomorphs were formed after primary phyllosilicates. Statistical analysis showed a ninefold increase in volume during the kaolinization of biotite, suggesting that most AI in the kaolinite was imported from ambient weathering solution. Weathering primary phyllosilicates supplied templates suitable for the thick epitactic overgrowth of kaolinite to form long vermicular pseudomorphs. AI was sufficiently available due to the intense weathering of soluble anorthosite. Although present in small amounts, primary phyllosilicates gave high volumetric and mineralogical contributions to the weathering profiles by facilitating kaolinite precipitation.

Keywords

EpitacticKaolinitePseudomorphScanning Electron MicroscopyWeathering
Type
Research Article
Information
Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 46 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 509 - 520
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Copyright © 1998, The Clay Minerals Society

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