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TY - JOUR
T1 - Hydrothermal alteration of chevkinite-group minerals
T2 - Part 2. Metasomatite from the Keivy massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia
AU - MacDonald, Raymond
AU - Bagiński, Bogusław
AU - Kartashov, Pavel M.
AU - Zozulya, Dmitry
AU - Dzierzanowski, Piotr
PY - 2015/10
Y1 - 2015/10
N2 - Chevkinite-(Ce) in a mineralized quartz-epidote metasomatite from the Keivy massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, underwent at least two stages of low-temperature alteration. In the first, it interacted with hydrothermal fluids, with loss of Ca, Fe, LREE and Si and strong enrichment in Ti. The altered chevkinite was then rimmed and partially replaced by a zone of ferriallanite-(Ce) and davidite-(La), in turn rimmed by a zone of allanite-(Ce) richer in the epidote component. The allanite zone was in turn partially replaced by rutile-titanite-quartz assemblages, the formation of titanite postdating that of rutile. Aeschynite-(Y), aeschynite-(Ce) and REE-carbonates are accessory phases in all zones. The hydrothermal fluids were alkaline, with significant proportions of CO2 and F. At various alteration stages, the Ca, Si ± Al activities in the fluid were high. Formation of the aeschynite is discussed in relation to its stability in broadly similar parageneses; it was a primary phase in the unaltered chevkinite zone whereas in other zones it formed from Nb, Ti, REE and Th released from the major phases.
AB - Chevkinite-(Ce) in a mineralized quartz-epidote metasomatite from the Keivy massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, underwent at least two stages of low-temperature alteration. In the first, it interacted with hydrothermal fluids, with loss of Ca, Fe, LREE and Si and strong enrichment in Ti. The altered chevkinite was then rimmed and partially replaced by a zone of ferriallanite-(Ce) and davidite-(La), in turn rimmed by a zone of allanite-(Ce) richer in the epidote component. The allanite zone was in turn partially replaced by rutile-titanite-quartz assemblages, the formation of titanite postdating that of rutile. Aeschynite-(Y), aeschynite-(Ce) and REE-carbonates are accessory phases in all zones. The hydrothermal fluids were alkaline, with significant proportions of CO2 and F. At various alteration stages, the Ca, Si ± Al activities in the fluid were high. Formation of the aeschynite is discussed in relation to its stability in broadly similar parageneses; it was a primary phase in the unaltered chevkinite zone whereas in other zones it formed from Nb, Ti, REE and Th released from the major phases.
KW - AESCHYNITE
KW - CHEVKINITE GROUP
KW - DAVIDITE
KW - EPIDOTE SUPERGROUP
KW - HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS
U2 - 10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.02
DO - 10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.02
M3 - Journal article
VL - 79
SP - 1039
EP - 1059
JO - Mineralogical Magazine
JF - Mineralogical Magazine
SN - 0026-461X
IS - 5
ER -