Samples of bentonite layers from altered volcanic ash layers of the Anthering Formation in Salzburg, Austria, which most likely covers the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, were analyzed for their chemical composition. The results of the major and trace element determination confirm the previously suggested appearance from at least two different primary localities. One sample has low abundances in TiO...

The past decade has seen a significant expansion both in the interpretive methodologies used to extract mineralogical information from asteroid spectra and other remote-sensing data and in the number of asteroids for which mineralogical characterizations exist. Robust mineralogical characterizations now exist for more than 40 asteroids, an order a magnitude increase since Asteroids II was publi...

Edwards (1942), in a broad chemical and mineralogical study of dolerites in Tasmania, found variations in composition within the sills and dykes examined. He attributed these chang>es to fractional crystallization and gravitative differentiation in the cooling magma of the sills, similar to that which is postulated to have occurred in the Skaergaard intrusion of East Greenland and the Palisade ...

We report the first natural occurrence of the Fe-analogue of akimotoite, ilmenite-structured MgSiO3, a missing phase among the predicted high-pressure polymorphs of Fe-pyroxene, with the composition (Fe2+0.48Mg0.37Ca0.04Na0.04Mn2+0.03Al0.03Cr3+0.01)Σ=1.00Si1.00O3. The new mineral was approved by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA 2016-085) and named hemleyite in honour of Russell ...