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Tuhualite in a peralkaline rhyolite ignimbrite from Pantelleria, Italy

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>04/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>European Journal of Mineralogy
Issue number2
Volume30
Number of pages7
Pages (from-to)367-373
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date10/01/18
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

An occurrence of the rare mineral tuhualite (NaFe3+Fe2+Si6O15) is reported in a peralkaline rhyolitic ignimbrite from the island of Pantelleria, Italy. The mineral formed during devitrification of glassy fiamme and varies in form from anhedral plates to perfectly euhedral in open vesicles. There is significant replacement of Fe2+ by Mn (≤0.37 atoms per formula unit (apfu)) and Zn (≤0.11 apfu), and of Na by K (≤0.13 apfu). The tuhualite possibly formed at temperatures <580 °C at fO2>FMQ in the presence of a hydrous fluid.