Datolite

Spectrum Details

Modality

FTIR

Category

mineral

Material Type

Nesosilicate

Sample ID

HS442.1B, HS442.2B, HS442.3B, HS442.4B

Collection Locality

Connecticut

Spectral Purity

1b2_3_4_ # Datolite HS442.1B # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1b2_3_4_ # Datolite HS442.2B # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1b2b3b4b # Datolite HS442.3B # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1b2_3_4_ # Datolite HS442.4B # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns

Composition / XRD

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

Sample Description

"N-15 Datolite 442B--Conn. CaB(SiO4)(OH): Datolite is typical of a mineral of secondary origin found in cavities in basaltic lavas and similar rocks. Its spectrum is completely dominated by well-resolved features near 1.02 µ , 1.26 µ, 1.48 µ, 1.74 µ, and 1.80 µ as well as multiple bands between 2.1 and 2.5 µ. The overall appearance of this spectrum from 0.6 to 1.85 µ is essentially identical with that of gypsum (see Part IV, p. 7-8, spectra SS 11-A through D) including the unusual 1.7 µ feature, although all the features in datolite are shifted slightly to longer wavelengths from the corresponding positions in gypsum. However, in datolite the intense 1.9 µ feature, indicative of the presence of molecular water is completely absent, and yet the spectrum of gypsum is explained entirely in terms of its molecular water of crystallization, with the 1.7 µ feature involving librational modes of water. It would seem therefore, in the absence of water that the bands short of 1.85 µ in datolite must be due to combination modes of at least two different types of OH stretching vibrations. The bands between 2.1 and 2.5 µ can be explained in terms of combination of these OH stretching modes with lattice modes with additional contributions from carbonate vibrations (due to calcite, which is present as an impurity) and possibly from combinations involving the boron-oxygen stretching modes (see Part V, p. 130-131, spectra B-1 through B-4)." Hunt, G.R., J.W. Salisbury, and C.J. Lenhoff, 1973, Visible and near-infrared spectra of minerals and rocks: VI. Additional silicates. Modern Geology, v. 4, p. 85-106. Grain size fractions are indicated by the extension after the sample number: .1B = IMAGE_OF_SAMPLE:

XRD Analysis

Pure datolite (Norma Vergo).

X Units

cm⁻¹

Y Units

Absorbance

Data Points

1,801