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Microstructures and interlayering in pyrophyllite from the Coastal Range of central Chile: evidence of a disequilibrium assemblage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

M. D. Ruiz Cruz ,
D. Morata ,
E. Puga ,
L. Aguirre  and
M. Vergara
M. D. Ruiz Cruz*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
D. Morata
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla, 803, Santiago, Chile
E. Puga
Affiliation:
Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (C.S.I.C.-U.G.R.), Avda. Fuentenueva s/n, 18002 Granada, Spain
L. Aguirre
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla, 803, Santiago, Chile
M. Vergara
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla, 803, Santiago, Chile
*
*E-mail: mdruiz@uma.es
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Abstract

Pyrophyllite from a Triassic sedimentary formation from the Coastal Range of Chile has been investigated by transmission/analytical electron microscopy (TEM/AEM). The mineral assemblage includes pyrophyllite, muscovite, paragonite, a kaolin mineral, boehmite, rutile and hematite. The textures indicate that the protolith was a volcanoclastic rock. Petrographic evidence, chemistry, and the mineral assemblage suggest the intense leaching of the parent rock by a weathering process, before the metamorphic episode, to create the protolith for the pyrophyllite. Pyrophyllite always grows from the kaolin mineral, and both phases show close orientation relationships. The presence of parallel intergrowths of pyrophyllite and muscovite indicate that muscovite also grew from the kaolin mineral. Nevertheless, the composition of muscovite suggests that this phase must also form from another precursor, probably Al smectite. The AEM data and textural relationships between pyrophyllite and muscovite reveal the presence of two generations of muscovite and suggest that Na-rich muscovite recrystallized into a Na-free muscovite and paragonite.

Keywords

analytical electron microscopyAndesChiledickitemuscovitemetaclastitepyrophyllitestructural defectstransmission electron microscopy
Type
Research Article
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Clay Minerals , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 439 - 452
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2004

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