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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhitova, Elena S
• Krivovichev, Sergey V
• Yakovenchuk, Viktor N
• Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu
• Pakhomovsky, Yakov A
• Mikhailova, Julia A

Titel

Crystal chemistry of natural layered double hydroxides; 4, Crystal structures and evolution of structural complexity of quintinite polytypes from the Kovdor alkaline-ultrabasic massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia

Ist Teil von

• Mineralogical magazine, 2018-04, Vol.82 (2), p.329-346

Ort / Verlag

London: Mineralogical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Two quintinite polytypes, 3R and 2T, which are new for the Kovdor alkaline-ultrabasic complex, have been structurally characterized. The crystal structure of quintinite-2T was solved by direct methods and refined to R1 = 0.048 on the basis of 330 unique reflections. The structure is trigonal, P3c1, a = 5.2720(6), c = 15.113(3) Å and V = 363.76(8) Å3. The crystal structure consists of [Mg2Al(OH)6]+ brucite-type layers with an ordered distribution of Mg2+ and Al3+ cations according to the √3 $ × √3 superstructure with the layers stacked according to a hexagonal type. The complete layer stacking sequence can be described as ...=Ab1C = Cb1A=... The crystal structure of quintinite-3R was solved by direct methods and refined to R1 = 0.022 on the basis of 140 unique reflections. It is trigonal, R3m, a = 3.063(1), c = 22.674(9) Å and V = 184.2(1) Å3. The crystal structure is based upon double hydroxide layers [M2+,3+(OH)2] with disordered distribution of Mg, Al and Fe and with the layers stacked according to a rhombohedral type. The stacking sequence of layers can be expressed as ...=AB = BC = CA=... The study of morphologically different quintinite generations grown on one another detected the following natural sequence of polytype formation: 2H → 2T → 1M that can be attributed to a decrease of temperature during crystallization. According to the information-based approach to structural complexity, this sequence corresponds to the increasing structural information per atom (IG): 1.522 → 1.706 → 2.440 bits, respectively. As the IG value contributes negatively to the configurational entropy of crystalline solids, the evolution of polytypic modifications during crystallization corresponds to the decreasing configurational entropy. This is in agreement with the general principle that decreasing temperature corresponds to the appearance of more complex structures.