The hydrothermal stabilities of a low-Fe clinochlore and a high-Mg chamosite, in the presence of kaolinite, were investigated recently at T ⩽ 200°C and
(Aja and Small, 1999; Aja and Dyar, 2002). Standard state thermodynamic properties (
,
and
) have been obtained for the two chlorites whose structural formulae are (
) (Si5.66Al2.34)O20(OH)16 and (
)(Si5.63Al2.37)O20(OH)16. For the low-Fe clinochlore, the respective thermochemical properties are 430 J mol−1 K−1, −8770.64±35.24 kJ mol−1, and −8120.54±32.63 kJ mol−1.
,
and
, similarly obtained for the Windsor chamosite are −7851.29±23.14 kJ mol−1, −7271.01±21.43 kJ mol−1 and 668±5 J mol−1K−1, respectively. Ideal site-mixing models of chlorite composition, along the chamosite-clinochlore binary, fail to model satisfactorily these chlorite-fluid equilibria only at lower temperatures (T <175°C). The magnitudes of the excess thermodynamic properties calculated for these chlorites, within the ternary clinochlore-daphnite-sudoite system, suggest significant deviations from ideality.