The past decade has seen a significant expansion both in the interpretive methodologies used to extract mineralogical information from asteroid spectra and other remote-sensing data and in the number of asteroids for which mineralogical characterizations exist. Robust mineralogical characterizations now exist for more than 40 asteroids, an order a magnitude increase since Asteroids II was publi...

General comments. This study presents a good overview of the CaCO3 polimorph precipitation in corals skeletal formation, investigating the ability of corals to switch from aragonite to calcite precipitation, especially in their early developmental stages in response to changing seawater chemistry. Mg/Ca ratio, temperature and pCO2 has been already recognized as the most important factor affecti...

Advances in characterization of the soil clay mineralogy using X-ray 1 diffraction: from decomposition to profile fitting 2 3 F. HUBERT, L. CANER, A. MEUNIER & B. LANSON 4 5 HydrASA, University of Poitiers, INSU-CNRS, 40 avenue du Recteur Pineau, F-86022 6 Poitiers cedex, France and Mineralogy & Environments Group, LGCA, Maison des 7 GéoSciences, Grenoble University, CNRS, F-38041 Grenoble Cede...

SUMMAaY. The Mineralogical Society celebrated its 5oth Anniversary in I926; this address attempts to summarize the substantial developments in the subject over the past 5o years and looks ahead to the future. Up to 1926, only the techniques of goniometry, optical investigation of non-opaques, and classical chemical analysis had been fully exploited. X-ray crystallography, though already I4 year...

The purpose of this study is to understand mineral diagenesis authigenic mineral and the effect of climate on mineral of Pleistocene-Holocene sediment deposits in the Southern Kenya Rift. Lake Magadi unique geologic settings are characterized by extreme alkalinity and high silica activities. The mineralogical analysis was achieved by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM...

Introduction: Knowledge of the surface mineralogy and chemistry of the crust is central to understanding the evolution of the lunar crust. Using the 5-band ultravioletvisible (UVVIS) Clementine data set, Tompkins and Pieters [1] showed that approximate mineralogy could be determined from Clementine data and analyzed 109 impact craters detailing the approximate mineralogy, or rocktypes, of their...

The objectives of the study were to (i) investigate whether short term mineralization varies to a greater extent by charring organic matter (OM) or by exposure to different mineral surfaces, (ii) examine the effect of clay mineralogy on mineralization of either charred or uncharred OM and (iii) quantify these differences in mineralization in the context of C evolution during charring. Mineraliz...

The mineralogy and chemistry of the less than 20μm fraction of marine sediments at Morphou Bay, north-west Cyprus, are presented to characterise fine-grained sediment supplies from basic and ultrabasic rocks of the Troodos Massif within a typological setting. The sediments comprise a mixture of smectite, illite, kaolinite and iron rich chlorite. They also contain amorphous iron oxides/hydroxide...

Ancient lunar volcanic deposits, known as cryptomaria, have been detected by remote telescopic and orbital measurements since the 1970s. Cryptomaria are most easily identified by the presence of darkhalo impact craters and are associated with a mare basalt mineralogy, which is indicated by two pyroxene spectral absorption features near 1 μm and 2 μm in the visible to near-infrared (VNIR) wavele...