Sample Description USGS Spectral Library Version 7

USGS Spectral Library Version 7 Sample Description

Kokaly, R.F., Clark, R.N., Swayze, G.A., Livo, K.E., Hoefen, T.M., Pearson, N.C., Wise, R.A., Benzel, W.M., Lowers, H.A., Driscoll, R.L., and Klein, A.J., 2017, USGS Spectral Library Version 7: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1035, 61 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1035
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TITLE: Chlorite Phyllite CU91-238A DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: MIXTURE

SAMPLE_ID: CU91-238A

MIXTURE_TYPE: Intimate

MIXTURE: Chlorite + muscovite + other mineral phases

FORMULA: (Mg,Fe2+)5Al(Si3Al)O10(OH)8

FORMULA_HTML: (Mg,Fe²⁺)₅Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₈

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Western Alteration Center, Cuprite, Nevada, USA

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Gregg Swayze

COLLECTION_LATITUDE: N37 31.82' # degrees and decimal minutes (N or S)

COLLECTION_LONGITUDE: W117 13.93' # degrees and decimal minutes (W or E) P> DATUM: NAD27 # coordinate datum

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: U.S.G.S. Denver Spectroscopy Laboratory

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: U.S.G.S. Denver Spectroscopy Laboratory

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

This sample was collected southwest of the relict hydrothermal alteration center at Cuprite, NV. It consists of a greenish muscovite-chlorite phyllite that is part of the unaltered lower Cambrian Harkless Formation.

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XRD_ANALYSIS:

Fe-chlorite, muscovite, quartz, and kaolinite.

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COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: XRF # XRF, EPMA, ICP(Trace), WChem

COMPOSITION_TRACE: None

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

None

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MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

None

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SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

The spectrum has absorptions characteristic of chlorite and muscovite. Chlorite Fe-related bands dominate in the electronic region (.35 - 1.35 microns) with a muscovite band at 2.1973 microns and chlorite bands at 2.2607 and 2.3505 microns in the vibrational region (1.35-2.5 microns).

See: Swayze, G.A., 1997, The hydrothermal and structural history of the Cuprite Mining District, southwestern Nevada: an integrated geological and geophysical approach: unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 399p.

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SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1b2_3_4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns