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Russian Geology and Geophysics

2007 year, number 11

Partitioning of species-forming and impurity cations among growth pyramids of pinacoid and prism faces in crystals of beryl, cordierite, and beryllian indialite

M.A. Mikhailov, T.V. Demina, O.Yu. Belozerova
Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch of the RAS, 1a ul. Favorskogo, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia
Keywords: Crystals of compounds with beryl structure; face effect
Pages: 923-932

Abstract

The face effect was observed in all individual compounds with beryl structure having grown at a rate of 1-8 unit cells a second, with spontaneous crystallization in the system beryl (or cordierite)-Mg,Ca/Cl,F-impurity, where impurities are Ti, V, Cr and/or Fe oxides. By