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Randomly Interstratified Serpentine/Chlorite: Its Detection and Quantification by Powder X-ray Diffraction Methods
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- Journal:
- Clays and Clay Minerals / Volume 40 / Issue 3 / June 1992
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- 28 February 2024, pp. 262-267
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X-ray diffraction studies of the pore-lining chloritic mineral from the Tuscaloosa Formation disclose a marked pattern of odd-order line broadening for the 001 to the 00,16 reflections. The odd-order peaks are approximately twice as broad as the even orders after correction for instrumental broadening effects. These results are consistent with a randomly interstratified 7-Å/14-Å structure, which is most likely serpentine/chlorite. Quantitative analysis of line broadening and model calculations indicate that the serpentine/chlorite contains 7% serpentine layers.
A simplified method is proposed for quantifying randomly interstratified serpentine/chlorite. Residual line broadening (βr) is obtained from the half-height widths of uncorrected diffraction profiles for the 004 and 005 “chlorite” reflections by means of the following:
Percent serpentine in the random interstratification is computed from the empirical expression
which is valid from about 1 to 20 percent serpentine.
