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Peretyazhko, Igor S., Savina, Elena A., Khromova, Elena A. (2017) Minerals of the rhönite-kuratite series in paralavas from a new combustion metamorphic complex in the Choir–Nyalga basin (Central Mongolia): composition, mineral assemblages and formation conditions. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (4) 949-974 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.144

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TitleMinerals of the rhönite-kuratite series in paralavas from a new combustion metamorphic complex in the Choir–Nyalga basin (Central Mongolia): composition, mineral assemblages and formation conditions
JournalMineralogical Magazine
AuthorsPeretyazhko, Igor S.Author
Savina, Elena A.Author
Khromova, Elena A.Author
Year2017 (August)Volume81
Issue4
PublisherMineralogical Society
DOIdoi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.144Search in ResearchGate
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Full ReferencePeretyazhko, Igor S., Savina, Elena A., Khromova, Elena A. (2017) Minerals of the rhönite-kuratite series in paralavas from a new combustion metamorphic complex in the Choir–Nyalga basin (Central Mongolia): composition, mineral assemblages and formation conditions. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (4) 949-974 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.144
Plain TextPeretyazhko, Igor S., Savina, Elena A., Khromova, Elena A. (2017) Minerals of the rhönite-kuratite series in paralavas from a new combustion metamorphic complex in the Choir–Nyalga basin (Central Mongolia): composition, mineral assemblages and formation conditions. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (4) 949-974 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.144
Abstract/NotesAbstractThis is the first description of rare minerals found in paralavas from a
recently discovered combustion metamorphic complex in the Choir–Nyalga
basin, Central Mongolia. The identified minerals contain strongly variable
concentrations of Si, Ti, Mg, Fe2+ and Fe3+and most
commonly have compositions intermediate in a series from kuratite
Ca4Fe102+Ti2O4[Si8Al4O
36] and rhönite Ca4(Mg,
Fe2+)8Fe23+Ti2O4[Si6Al6O36]
to low-Ti kuratite and unnamed Ti-free Fe2+-analogue of rhönite
Ca4Fe82+Fe43+O4[Si8Al4O36]. The
minerals crystallized in residual Si-Al-K and Si-Al-Ca-Fe immiscible melts
after spinel, anorthite–bytownite, melilite, Al-clinopyroxene ± Mg-Fe
olivine, together with Fe3+-bearing hercynite, Ca-rich fayalite,
kirschsteinite, pyrrhotite ± native iron, wüstite, magnetite, celsian,
hyalophane, Ba-orthoclase and fresnoite, but before nepheline± kalsilite,
and later sulfates, carbonates, an unidentified 'X-mineral' close to Al- and
Fe-rich tobermorite and goethite. Micro-Raman spectroscopy of kuratite shows
five bands near 133–155 (strong), 399–401, 545–566, 684–693 (strongest) and
828–839 cm–1.The kuratite-bearing Nyalga paralavas have bulk compositions with
MgO/(MgO+FeO+Fe2O3), mol.% ∼0.5 and a CIPW
normative ratio of Ne/(Ne+Lc) = 0.23–0.76. Minerals of the rhönite–kuratite
series formed during paralava crystallization at ∼1100°C.The diversity of
the paralava mineral assemblages might result from local composition
variations of Ca-rich silica-undersaturated melts derived from Fe-bearing
carbonate-silicate sediments which were affected by nearby coal combustion
sources at reducing conditions (IW-WM-QFM buffers) and at a nearly
atmospheric pressure.

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Nyalga combustion metamorphic complexes, Bayan District, Töv Province, Mongolia
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Nyalga Combustion Metamorphic complex, Choir-Nyalga basin, Töv Province, Mongolia
Baby, Nyalga Combustion Metamorphic complex, Choir-Nyalga basin, Töv Province, Mongolia
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Tugrug quarry, Töv Province, Mongolia

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Nyalga combustion metamorphic complexes, Bayan District, Töv Province, Mongolia Åkermanite, Albite, Andesine, Anorthite, Apatite, Ba Feldspar, Baryte, Bytownite, Calcite, Carbonate-silicate rock, Celestine, Celsian, Clinker, Clinopyroxene Subgroup, Coal, Corundum, Dacite, Diopside, Dolomite, Fayalite, Fayalite-Forsterite Series, Feldspar Group, Ferroindialite, Fluorite, Forsterite, Fresnoite, Gehlenite, Goethite, Gypsum, Hedenbergite, Hercynite, Hortonolite, Hyalophane, Hypersthene, Ilmenite, Indialite, Kaliophilite, Kalsilite, Kirschsteinite, Kuratite, Labradorite, Larnite, Leucite, Lignite, Limestone, Magnesioferrite, Magnetite, Melilite Group, Microcline, Monticellite, Mudstone, Native Iron, Nepheline, Nephelinite, Obsidian, Olivine Group, Orthoclase, Palagonite, Parabasalt, Perovskite, Plagioclase, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Rhönite, Rhyolite, Rutile, Sandstone, Siderite, Siltstone, Slag, Spinel, Tobermorite, Trachybasalt, Ulvöspinel, Wüstite, Zircon
Nyalga Combustion Metamorphic complex, Choir-Nyalga basin, Töv Province, Mongolia Celsian, Clinopyroxene Subgroup, Fayalite, Fayalite-Forsterite Series, Fresnoite, Goethite, Hercynite, Hyalophane, Kalsilite, Kirschsteinite, Kuratite, Magnetite, Melilite Group, Native Iron, Nepheline, Orthoclase, Pyrrhotite, Rhönite, Spinel, Tobermorite, Wüstite
Tugrug quarry, Töv Province, Mongolia Anorthite, Clinoenstatite, Clinoferrosilite, Clinopyroxene Subgroup, Coal, Fayalite-Forsterite Series, Glass, Hyalophane, Indialite, Magnetite, Plagioclase, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Smythite, Spinel, Titanium-bearing Magnetite


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