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: Muscovite IL107 DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: MINERAL

SAMPLE_ID: IL107

MINERAL_TYPE: Phyllosilicate

MINERAL: Muscovite (Mica group)

FORMULA: KAl2Si3O10(OH)2

FORMULA_HTML: KAl₂Si₃O₁₀(OH)₂

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Pegmatite, North Carolina

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Don Harville, Core Laboratories, Dallas, Texas

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: CSES/CIRES, Univ. of CO, Boulder

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: CSES/CIRES, Univ. of CO, Boulder

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

IMAGE_OF_SAMPLE:
NO PHOTO

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XRD_ANALYSIS:

Pure (?). (2M2-mica)

Kruse, F.A., and P.L. Hauff, eds., 1992, The IGCP-264 Spectral Properties Database. IUGS/UNESCO, Special Publication, 211 p., (in press).

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COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: None # XRF, EPMA, ICP(Trace), WChem

COMPOSITION_TRACE:

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

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MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

avg. grain size = 13 µm

Single platy cleavage, 1st order gray, length slow, nearly straight extinction. All consistent with muscovite. G. Swayze.

END_MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION.

SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

END_SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION.

SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1b2_3_4_ # IL107 # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns