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Willemite from the Ilímaussaq alkaline Intrusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

John Metcalf-Johansen*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry

Summary

During the summer of 1967 willcmite was found for the first time in the Ilímaussaq alkaline intrusion, South Greenland. The willemite occurs in an albitite together with aegirine/acmite, albite, analcime, arfvedsonite, apatite, chkalovite, hemimorphite, microcline, monazite, natrolite, naujakasite, neptunite, sphalerite, and polylithionite. Analytical, optical, and X-ray data were obtained from the willemite. Willemite from a calcite vein at Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, and from a quartz vein at Mussartût, South Greenland, were also examined.

One of the willemite crystals from Ilimaussaq was a trilling on <100>. This is the first time willemite has been found as a trilling.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1977

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