Solid inclusions

Loose group of whitish guest crystals (F-apatite, K-Feldspar and calcites) |
Most abundant in samples from source A - in the order of their
frequency are colourless calcite as rhombohedral or rounded, resorbed crystals with many
faces and twin planes; hexagonal, more or less well shaped prisms of colourless apatite ;
red-brown flakes of phlogopite, yellowish tablets of feldspar and black grains of
'thorianite-uraninite' with tension haloes . In contrast to source A, the most abundant
mineral inclusion in the samples from source C is green spinel. |
In the following section some new findingss about the properties of
the inclusions which were obtained by SEM-analyses, will be discussed. Some different
types of Na-Ca-K-silicates were present, which could not be identified definitely by means
of SEM-analyses (scapolite versus feldspars). To arrive at a definite identification,
further XRD-analyses are required. Positive identification is possible for meionite
inclusions by combined SEM-analyses and acid testing.
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