Osumilite-(Mg): Validation as a mineral species and new data

Osumilite-(Mg), the Mg-dominant analogue of osumilite, has been approved by the CNMNC IMA as a new mineral species. The holotype sample has been found at Bellerberg, Eifel volcanic area, Germany. Fluorophlogopite, sanidine, cordierite, mullite, sillimanite, topaz, pseudobrookite and hematite are associated minerals. Osumilite-(Mg) occurs as short prismatic or thick tabular hexagonal crystals reaching 0.5 × 1 mm in size in the cavities in basaltic volcanic glasses at their contact with thermally metamorphosed xenoliths of pelitic rocks. The mineral is brittle, with Mohs’ hardness 6.5. Cleavage was not observed. Color is blue to brown. D _meas = 2.59(1), D _calc = 2.595 g/cm³. No bands corresponding to H₂O and OH-groups are in the IR spectrum. Osumilite-(Mg) is uniaxial (+), ω = 1.539(2), ? = 1.547(2). The chemical composition (electron microprobe, average of 5 point analyses, wt %) is: 0.08 Na₂O, 3.41 K₂O, 0.04 CaO, 7.98 MgO, 0.28 MnO, 21.57 Al₂O₃, 3.59 Fe₂O₃, 62.33 SiO₂, total 99.28. The empirical formula is: (K_0.72Na_0.03Ca_0.01)(Mg_1.97Mn_0.04)[Al_4.21Fe _0.45 ³⁺ Si_10.32]O₃₀. The simplified formula is: KMg₂Al₃(Al₂Si₁₀)O₁₀. The crystal structure was refined on a single crystal, R = 0.0294. Osumilite-(Mg) is hexagonal, space group P6/mcc; a = 10.0959(1), c = 14.3282(2)Å, V = 1264.79(6) ų, Z = 2. The strongest reflections in the X-ray powder diffraction pattern [d, Å I %) (hkl)] are: 7.21 (37) (002), 5.064 (85) (110), 4.137 (45) (112), 3.736 (43) (202), 3.234 (100) (211), 2.932 (42) (114), 2.767 (51) (204). A type specimen is deposited in the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, registration number 4174/1.     

Alumovesuvianite,Ca19Al(Al,Mg)12Si18O69(OH)9, a new vesuvianite-group member from the Jeffrey mine,asbestos, Estrie region,Québec,Canada

Mineralogy and Petrology - Alumovesuvianite (IMA 2016–014), ideally Ca19Al(Al,Mg)12Si18O69(OH)9, is a new vesuvianite-group member found in the rodingite zone at the contact of a gabbroid...     

Supernova Explosion Mechanism with the Neutrinos and the Collapse of the Rotation Core

Most of the energy released in the gravitational collapse of the cores of massive stars is carried away by neutrinos. Neutrinos play a pivotal role in explaining core-collapse supernovae. In this work the multidimensional gas dynamics is used with neutrino transport in the flux-limited diffusion approximation to study the role of multi-dimensional effects. The possibility of large-scale convection is discussed, which is interesting both for explaining SNII and for setting up observations to register possible high-energy (?10 MeV) neutrinos from the supernova. In compare with the previous work describing a new multidimensional gas dynamics method with neutrino transport we investigate the role of the rotation in the convection.     

含盐量对冻土强度的影响特征

Is shown that the durability of frozen salted soil is caused by concentration of porous solution formed during freezing of soil moisture     

Schüllerite, Ba2Na(Mn,Ca)(Fe3+,Mg,Fe2+)2Ti2(Si2O7)2(O,F)4, a new mineral species from the Eifel volcanic district, Germany

A new heterophyllosilicate mineral schüllerite was found in the L?hley basalt quarry in the Eifel volcanic region, Germany, as a member of the late mineral assemblage comprising nepheline, leucite, augite, phlogopite, magnetite, titanite, fresnoite, barytolamprophyllite, fluorapatite, perovskite, and pyrochlore. Flattened brown crystals of schüllerite up to 0.5 × 1 × 2 mm in size and their aggregates occur in miarolic cavities of alkali basalt. The mineral is brittle, with a Mohs hardness 3–4 and perfect cleavage parallel to (001). D _calc = 3.974 g/cm³. Its IR spectrum is individual and does not contain bands of OH⁻, CO₃²⁻ or H₂O. Schüllerite is biaxial (−), α = 1.756(3), β = 1.773(4), γ = 1.780(4), 2V _meas = 40(20)°. Dispersion is weak, r < ν. Pleochroism is medium X > Y > Z, brown to dark brown. Chemical composition (electron microprobe, mean of five-point analyses, Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ ratio determined by the X-ray emission spectroscopic data, wt %): 3.55 Na₂O, 0.55 K₂O, 3.89 MgO, 2.62 CaO, 1.99 ArO, 28.09 BaO, 3.43 FeO, 8.89 Fe₂O₃, 1.33 Al₂O₃, 11.17 TiO₂, 2.45 Nb₂O₅, 26.12 SiO₂, 2.12 F, −0.89 -O=F₂, 98.98 in total. The empirical formula is (Ba_1.68Sr_0.18K_0.11Na_1.05Ca_0.43Mn_0.47Mg_0.88Fe_0.44²⁺Fe_1.02³⁺Ti_1.28Nb_0.17Al_0.24)_Σ7.95Si_3.98O_16.98F_1.02. The crystal structure was refined on a single crystal. Schüllerite is triclinic, space group P1, unit cell parameters: a = 5.4027(1), b = 7.066(4), c = 10.2178(1)?, α = 99.816(1), β = 99.624(1), γ = 90.084(1)°, V = 378.75(2) ?³, Z = 1. The strongest lines of the X-ray powder diffraction pattern [d, ?, (I, %)]: 9.96(29), 3.308(45), 3.203(29), 2.867(29), 2.791(100), 2.664(46), 2.609(36), 2.144(52). The mineral was named in honor of Willi Schüller (born 1953), an enthusiastic, prominent amateur mineral collector, and a specialist in the mineralogy of Eifel. Type specimens have been deposited at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, registration no. 3995/1,2.     

Electron-positron and photon wind from the surface of a strange star

We consider the problem of strange-star (SS) radiation. The bare quark SS surface and electrons on the stellar surface generate an electric field that is strong enough for electron-positron pairs to be produced from a vacuum at a nonzero temperature. The luminosity in pairs is assumed to be within ?10⁴⁹ erg s^?1 from a surface with a characteristic radius of 10 km. We consider the energy transfer from pairs to photons by taking into account the well-studied reactions between e, e ⁺, γ and obtain a change in the photon spectrum with luminosity. Our analysis is restricted to the spherically symmetric case. The magnetic field is disregarded. To solve the problem, we developed a new numerical method of integrating the Boltzmann kinetic equations for pairs and photons. This method is used to calculate the problem up to a luminosity of 10⁴² erg s^?1 This region is difficult to investigate when the optical path for pairs or photons is considerably larger than unity but the two optical depths are not simultaneously much larger than unity (when hydrodynamics with heat conduction is applicable). It turns out that the mean photon energy is approximately equal to $\bar \in _\gamma \approx m_e c^2$ (the annihilation line for pairs) at a modest luminosity, L?1×10³⁷ erg s^?1, and decreases to ≈210 keV at L?10³⁸ erg s^?1. Hydrodynamic estimates point to an increase in the mean energy $\bar \in _\gamma$ to 1 MeV as the luminosity further increases to L?10⁴⁹ erg s^?1. Our calculations may prove to be useful in interpreting soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) and are of methodological interest.     

Nonlinear processes in earthquake foci

The results of laboratory experiments on biaxially compressed physical models of a seismic source are presented, discussed and interpreted in terms of nonlinear dynamics; the relation is shown between the degree of seismic pulse coherency (expressed through the amplitude frequency spectra development) and energy (or magnitude) in a series of model experiments. It has been ascertained that the degree of radiated waves coherency plays a more important role concerning the seismic energy release than the size (radius) of the seismic source.The relations among individual source parameters obtained in the laboratory were tested by the analysis of three series of seismograms of aftershocks which followed the 1988 Spitak earthquake (two series) and the 1975 Oroville earthquake (one series). The fundamental effect observed in the laboratory, i.e., the growth of pulse coherency with increasing stress concentration in the focal region (reflected in growing earthquake magnitude), was clearly manifested in all three earthquake aftershock series.Due to derivation by a comparison of the above results, obtained on the basis of nonlinear dynamics with the classical source models by Brune, Madariaga and others, it seems to be namely the self-organizing of the structure itself caused by the increasing stress field in the seismic source, which can answer the question concerning the degree of energy cumulation in the earthquake focus at a given moment.     

Pigmente phototropher Bakterien in Seesedimenten und ihre Bedeutung für die Seenforschung

Sediments of shallow lakes contain besides plankton pigments as well pigments of purple non-sulfur and purple sulfur bacteria. A thin-layer chromatographic method was developed for the separation of the most important pigments of purple bacteria beside plankton pigments. The new method was examined in three different lakes for a stratigraphic analysis of bacteria pigments beside plankton pigments and the results were discussed subsequently.