Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1–20, 2010.
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Authors
Garcia-romero, E.
Suarez, M.
Issue Date
2010
Type
Article
Language
Keywords
Periodicals , Geology , Chemical Composition , Octahedral Sheet , Octahedra cations , Palygorskite , Sepiolite
Alternative Title
On The Chemical Composition Of Sepiolite And Palygorskite
Abstract
Many studies of the chemical composition of sepiolite and palygorskite have been carried out using analytical electron microscopy (AEM). According to the literature, a compositional gap exists between sepiolites and palygorskites, but the results presented here show that they may all be intermediate compositions between two extremes. The results of >1000 AEM analyses and structural formulae have been obtained for the samples studied (22 samples of sepiolite and 21 samples of palygorskite) and indicate that no compositional gap exists between sepiolite and palygorskite. Sepiolite occupies the most magnesic and trioctahedral extreme and palygorskite the most aluminic-magnesic and dioctahedral extreme. Sepiolite and palygorskite with intermediate compositions exist between the two pure extremes: (1) sepiolite with a small proportion of octahedral substitution; (2) palygorskite with a very wide range of substitution (the pure dioctahedral extreme is unusual); and (3) intermediate forms, Al-sepiolite and Mgpalygorskite with similar or the same chemical composition. The chemical compositions of the intermediate forms can be so similar that a certain degree of polymorphism exists between Al-sepiolite and Mg-palygorskite.
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Citation
Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1–20, 2010.
Publisher
The Clay Minerals Society
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