Compositions of the Apatite-Group Minerals: Substitution Mechanisms and Controlling Factors
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- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Mineralogical Society of America in Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
- Vol. 48 (1), 13-49
- https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2002.48.2
Abstract
The apatite-group minerals of the general formula, M10(ZO4)6X2 (M = Ca, Sr, Pb, Na…, Z = P, As, Si, V…, and X = F, OH, Cl…), are remarkably tolerant to structural distortion and chemical substitution, and consequently are extremely diverse in composition (e.g., Kreidler and Hummel 1970; McConnell 1973; Roy et al. 1978; Elliott 1994). Of particular interest is that a number of important geological, environmental/paleoenvironmental, and technological applications of the apatite-group minerals are directly linked to their chemical compositions. It is therefore fundamentally important to understand the substitution...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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