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A basic magnesium carbonate, a possible dimorph of artinite, from Unst, Shetland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. Livingstone
A. Livingstone*
Affiliation:
Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
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Abstract

Efflorescent outgrowths and compact vein-like material from brucite-rich specimens is a basic magnesium carbonate and possibly a dimorph of artinite. X-ray, infrared, chemical and thermal data reveal the material to be different from known natural basic magnesium carbonates.

Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 51 , Issue 361 , September 1987 , pp. 459 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1987

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