Zoned, silica-deficient, calcic garnets containing up to 5 mol% F substitution for 0 formed during contact metamorphism of basalts by the Skaergaard intrusion in East Greenland. Fluorian calcic garnets occur as a retrograde alteration of prograde wollastonite and clinopyroxene that fills vesicles and vugs in lavas 30-70 m from the intrusion. Paragenetically equivalent phases include fluorite, w...

Processes for formation, cooling, and altering Earth's ocean crust are not yet completely understood due to challenges in access sampling. Here, we use contiguous micro-imaging infrared spectroscopy develop complete-core maps of mineral occurrence investigate spatial patterns the hydrothermal alteration 1.2 km oceanic recovered from Oman Drilling Project Holes GT1A, GT2A, GT3A drilled Samail Op...

Mineralization of freshwater-dissolved gases, such as CO2 and H2S, in subsurface mafic rocks is a successful permanent gas storage strategy. To apply this approach globally, the composition locally available water must be considered. In study, reaction path models were run to estimate rate extent mineralization reactions during gas-charged freshwater seawater injection into basalts at temperatu...

In recent years, a new type of material called Philippines “Dushan jade” has appeared in the gemstone market China. This material, very similar appearance and physical properties to Dushan jade, an important ancient jade with long history China, is causing confusion poses identification difficulties. Microscopy, electron probe microanalysis, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Raman...

The ability of the EQ3 and EQ6 geochemical modeling codes and the GEMBOCHS thermodynamic data bases (Wolery, 1992; Wolery and Daveler, 1992) to simulate geochemical changes in the post-emplacement environment at the potential Yucca Mountain, Nevada repository is being tested using observed mineral-fluid relations in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand. In this report, comparisons between obs...