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STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS OF (POLY)ANION SOLID SOLUTION IN SYNTHETIC OH-Cl BINARY APATITE AND NATURAL F-OH-Cl TERNARY APATITE

Kelly, Sean R
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3451-917X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1480963439051542

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2016, Master of Science, Miami University, Geology and Environmental Earth Science.
This thesis comprises two separate manuscripts prepared for submission to the American Mineralogist: “Solid solution in the apatite OH-Cl binary system: compositional dependence of solid solution mechanisms in calcium phosphate apatites along the Cl-OH binary” and “Column anion arrangements in chemically zoned ternary chlorapatite and fluorapatite from Kurokura, Japan”. The research characterizes the detailed structural mechanisms that enable solid solution among fluorine (F), hydroxyl (OH), and chlorine (Cl) in the mineral apatite using single-crystal x-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analysis. The first manuscript, using synthetic apatite samples, documents three previously unseen structural modifications (column anion arrangements) of apatite that enable the binary solid solution between OH and Cl. The second manuscript serves to compliment the first by demonstrating one of these structural mechanisms in a natural ternary apatite, while simultaneously documenting a fourth new apatite structural modification that occurs in F and OH rich, and Cl poor apatite.
John Rakovan, PHD (Advisor)
57 p.
Geological; Geology; Mineralogy; Petrology
Apatite, Chlorapatite, Fluorapatite, solid solution, x-ray diffraction, crystal structure

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  • Kelly, S. R. (2016). STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS OF (POLY)ANION SOLID SOLUTION IN SYNTHETIC OH-Cl BINARY APATITE AND NATURAL F-OH-Cl TERNARY APATITE [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1480963439051542

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kelly, Sean. STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS OF (POLY)ANION SOLID SOLUTION IN SYNTHETIC OH-Cl BINARY APATITE AND NATURAL F-OH-Cl TERNARY APATITE. 2016. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1480963439051542.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kelly, Sean. "STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS OF (POLY)ANION SOLID SOLUTION IN SYNTHETIC OH-Cl BINARY APATITE AND NATURAL F-OH-Cl TERNARY APATITE." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1480963439051542

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